Denis Villeneuve Quotes

From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.

Denis Villeneuve

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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.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Ice Cube
  • World
  • Way
  • Respect

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• Birth was the death of him.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Him

• Music is my balance... center of my life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Music
  • Balance

• 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.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • May
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Man
  • Strong

• America rules the world - by force.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • America
  • Rules

• 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.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Book
  • New
  • New York

• In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

  

  Kate Bush
  • You
  • Feel
  • Mental

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Stop
  • Reading

• It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Old

• I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Real
  • Think
  • Weird

• That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Business
  • Words
  • Politics

• Respect authority while questioning it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Respect

• Wavering between the profit and the loss In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Dying
  • Twilight

• Okay, roll-call, no talking. Benny, Marc; Ethel, Shakina, nice shoes. Bobo twins, anyone seen the Bobo twins? Those Bobo twins.11

  

  Ze Frank
  • Nice
  • Shoes

• '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.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Mariota is special in a lot of ways. He's a dynamic dual threat on the field, and he is humble - no-nonsense, full of character - off the field.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Character
  • Humble

• Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? They’re nothing like ordinary shadows. Nothing at all. They come here from some other, distant world, especially for our hearts. Or maybe not. It struck me then that the tears my shadow was shedding might be the real thing, and the tears that I was shedding were just shadows. You don’t get it, I’m sure, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. When a naked seventeen-year-old girl is shedding tears in the moonlight, anything can happen. It’s true.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Tears
  • Hearts
  • Shadows

• I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

  

  Matthew Modine
  • Path
  • Famous

• The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.

  

  Donatella Versace

• I wasn't very good with people either until recently ... Turns out I just wasn't very good with myself

  

  Carrie Fletcher
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.

  

  Denis Villeneuve