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 wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
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An organization's culture of purpose answers the critical questions of who it is and why it exists. They have a culture of purpose beyond making a profit.
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We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.
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I'm a real voyeur.
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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.
