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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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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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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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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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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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
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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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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
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I'd love to do a real long speech again, eleven minutes dedicated to ME!
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I think everything has to come from something that you feel comfortable with and want to be in and sometimes we try to negotiate that limit, but it's not always easy to find the right balance.
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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
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The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck.
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It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.
