Denis Villeneuve Quotes
I was at the premiere of 'Prisoners,' and I heard two thousand people scream at the same time. I turned to my wife and said, 'I love cinema!' It's the sharing of emotions together, and it's collective. It's one of the last communions we have.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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I can’t pretend to have worked my way up through adversity. I need the money not for food like other people, but to prove that I’m worth something. Jaws freed me to discover that a successful movie didn’t make a damn bit of difference to my life.
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When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.
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I was at the premiere of 'Prisoners,' and I heard two thousand people scream at the same time. I turned to my wife and said, 'I love cinema!' It's the sharing of emotions together, and it's collective. It's one of the last communions we have.
