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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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
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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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Okay, roll-call, no talking. Benny, Marc; Ethel, Shakina, nice shoes. Bobo twins, anyone seen the Bobo twins? Those Bobo twins.11
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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 amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.
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Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people.
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There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.
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Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully.
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I always explain through images and characters what fashion means, and describing scent is almost the same. It can be very powerful. It can really change the perspective a person has of you.
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From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.
