Denis Villeneuve Quotes
My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
-
A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
-
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
-
I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
-
The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
-
I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
-
A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
-
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
-
I enjoy my life.
-
I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
-
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
-
Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
-
Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
-
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
-
The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
-
At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
-
Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
-
I never had planned for my life and my career.
-
I've never been great at being really analytical about myself.
-
High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
-
I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
-
May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
-
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
-
My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.
