Denis Villeneuve Quotes
From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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America rules the world - by force.
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I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
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It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
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I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.
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That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
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Respect authority while questioning it.
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Wavering between the profit and the loss In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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The underlying point held; experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.
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'Aid from heaven you may have,' he said, 'by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.'
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No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.
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By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.
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Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.
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English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.
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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
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From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.
