Denis Villeneuve Quotes

The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.

Denis Villeneuve

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• For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • You
  • Never
  • Sex

• One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.

  

  Kate Klise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • South
  • Backbone

• When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Best

• I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Attention
  • Strange

• I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Love
  • Acting
  • More

• Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Water
  • Individual
  • Issue

• Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• It's not a public matter when you discipline your family.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Family
  • You
  • Discipline

• When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Clothes

• Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • World
  • Community

• You get these moments of thrill. There you are, at 3:00 in the morning, and you know something about how we evolved that nobody else in the world knows. It's a thrill of discovery. You make this breakthrough, and you find something. It's this wonderful, wonderful scavenger hunt when you got to the end. It's just so great to be a scientist.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Great
  • Morning

• 'Blade' was amazing; I can't imagine the character without Wesley Snipes. He just made a long, black leather trench coat look so cool.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Long
  • Character
  • Black

• On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Day
  • Psychology
  • Details

• For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Single
  • Wise

• Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

  

  Claire Danes
  • Good
  • Movie

• When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • True
  • Brain

• If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

  

  Bob Ross

• All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Earth
  • Painting

• When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It's only through story, reading books by Elie Wiesel or Primo Levi, that you really begin to understand the trauma and how horrible it actually was.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Books
  • Holocaust
  • Trauma

• Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Done
  • Bad

• The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.

  

  Denis Villeneuve