Denis Villeneuve Quotes
From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
-
Birth was the death of him.
-
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.
-
America rules the world - by force.
-
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.
-
In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
-
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.
-
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
-
I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.
-
That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
-
Respect authority while questioning it.
-
Wavering between the profit and the loss In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying
-
'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.'
-
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.
-
'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.'
-
No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.
-
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
-
My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.
-
This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.
-
Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath.
-
The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.
-
From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.
