Denis Villeneuve Quotes
I didn't think I'd do movies in Los Angeles. I never thought it would happen. In fact, it was not a fantasy. For me, I said, 'If ever I go there, they will ask me to do 'Legally Blonde 5.'
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
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In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
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At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.
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I started off doing theater as a kid, and I always played a character. I hid behind the script and was told where to go. But to actually perform as yourself is very difficult. I didn't used to enjoy it, but now I do.
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There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.
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True flexibility is a symbiotic partnership between employer and employee and between technology and culture.
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I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.
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My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.
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Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.
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What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.
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My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.
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We just have to accept who we are, and I'm a film nerd, for better or worse.
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I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.
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If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the early stages.
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Queuing tips for fans: wrap up and bring food!
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I didn't think I'd do movies in Los Angeles. I never thought it would happen. In fact, it was not a fantasy. For me, I said, 'If ever I go there, they will ask me to do 'Legally Blonde 5.'
