Denis Villeneuve Quotes
In a way, the truth is that I was dreaming to do a movie in the United States just because, as a filmmaker, I always loved the idea of trying to make movies in a different culture, in a different way. It's always interesting to make a movie abroad.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I hate the domestic life.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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I love dressing up around the holidays! My friends also really like to get dressed up. It's an excuse to get fancy.
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Applied knowledge in the Renaissance had to take the form of translation of the auditory into visual terms, of the plastic into retinal form. (p. 180)
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I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.
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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
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In a way, the truth is that I was dreaming to do a movie in the United States just because, as a filmmaker, I always loved the idea of trying to make movies in a different culture, in a different way. It's always interesting to make a movie abroad.
