Denis Villeneuve Quotes

I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That's the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I was berserk to make a movie right before.

Denis Villeneuve

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• Enemy

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• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

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• People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.

  

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• The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

  

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• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

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• I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

  

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  

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• People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

  

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• In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

  

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• Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

  

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• If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

  

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• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

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• It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.

  

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• I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

  

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• I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

  

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• Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.

  

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• The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

  

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• I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.

  

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• The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.

  

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• In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

  

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• It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

  

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• Trust me: you make a movie about time travel, and you know for a fact humans will never travel through time. The paradoxes that come up just from trying to tell a story with time travel really illuminates the fact that it's impossible. It will never happen. We can barely get through a movie that involves time travel.

  

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• The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration.

  

  Debbie Allen
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• You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.

  

  Jason Giambi
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• I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That's the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I was berserk to make a movie right before.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Movie
  • English
  • Enemy