Canadian - Director | October 3, 1967 -
I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.
Denis Villeneuve
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Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
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I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. When they arrived here, the only way to keep dreaming was to make movies. Film was the fourth dimension.
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Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.
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When I use violence in a movie, it's just to express the power, the impact of it.
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A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.
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In Quebec, as women were getting more power, there were the men who agreed with that and the men who were afraid. I think most men are willing to share power with women, but there's fear. Every time you change something, there's a friction.
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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've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.
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'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.
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When I work in English, I'd say I don't see a big difference in my rapport with my team or the actors. When I work in English or French, the music of the language is different, but beyond that music, in the depths, it's the same.
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Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.
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