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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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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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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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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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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I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.
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No one bought my screenplays.
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Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.
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You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.
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Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system makes mistakes and the possibility of executing innocent people is both inherently wrong and morally reprehensible; (2) My personal experience and crime data show the death penalty does not reduce crime; and (3) The death penalty wastes precious resources that could be best used to fight crime and solve thousands of unsolved homicides languishing in filing cabinets in understaffed police departments across the state.
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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.
