Denis Villeneuve Quotes
I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I love to push myself.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
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It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.
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The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.
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Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing?
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I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
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Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.
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I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.
