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

• I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Important
  • Law
  • Legal

• 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

• Honestly, the more things start to get bigger and better, the more I am just inspired to work harder and put my music out there and make better music and keep everything going.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Work
  • Music
  • Inspired

• I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

  

  Jamie Lynn Spears
  • Singing

• It's really obvious that we have very serious inequality in this country across many different spectrums. Yes, we can talk about the form of protest or the way it's done or this or that. But it's still not really the conversation that I think we desperately need to have more of in this country.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Different
  • Country
  • Done

• In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Hope
  • Society
  • Freedom

• The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

  

  Jaycie Phelps
  • Risk

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

  

  Denis Villeneuve