Denis Villeneuve Quotes
It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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I adore the designer B. Michael's curve-flattering gowns, but there is nothing better than jeans with a crisp white shirt.
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I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
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I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.
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Haven't you ever seen a 3-year-old when he makes a foolish blunder? He looks at whatever child or adult is nearby and screams at him 'Look at what you made me do!' That's the moral universe that they always lived in.
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Imagine if organized religion organized billions of people and trillions of dollars to tackle the challenges that our economic and political systems are afraid or unwilling to tackle—a planet ravaged by unsustainable human behavior and an out-of-control consumptive economy, the growing gap between the rich minority and the poor majority, and the proliferation of weapons of all kinds—including weapons of mass destruction. “Wow,” people frequently say when I propose these possibilities. “If they did that, I might become religious again.” Some quickly add, “But I won’t hold my breath. It’ll never happen.
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You always have to speak good about the projects you do and you have to see the beauty in them. Sometimes you see them and you're happy with things, or maybe the process was nice and you enjoyed it, and you were happy with that. But when everything gathers - you liked the scripts from the very beginning, the directors, your friends - but then you see the result and you like it - it's beautiful.
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Friendship's full of dregs.
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While I live with my family in South Florida, I enjoy visiting New York and always appreciate seeing so many Univision fans.
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It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.
