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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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Long
Dream
Process
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" From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded. "
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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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Language
Intuition
" Cannes is the oldest film festival in the world, and I've long dreamed of having one of my films there in competition. It's a dream that lay dormant for a long time; I stopped believing in it. "
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Competition
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" 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. "
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Understand
Say
I Am
" Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders. Very quickly, he became for me a massive hero, and he introduced me to the world of a director. "
Denis Villeneuve
Hero
Me
Movies
" I have joy. Canadians have the reputation of making dark movies because we are in this society where we have the space to explore darkness. That's the way I see it. "
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Joy
Society
Space
" I think a good director is a good listener. "
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Director
Think
Listener
" I'm coming from a small town in Quebec where, at that time, there was no Internet, and the way to be in contact with movies were those American fan magazines like 'Fantastic Films' and 'Starlog,' and I still remember the shock, the impact of seeing the first frames, the first pictures coming out of 'Blade Runner.' "
Denis Villeneuve
Remember
Small
Time
" 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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Time
Change
Fear
" I was 'impressed' by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as he opened his mouth and shook my hand, I felt comfortable. He made me feel like I was one of his friends. "
Denis Villeneuve
Time
Me
Mouth
" I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly. "
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Person
Comedy
Dr
" 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid. "
Denis Villeneuve
Cinema
Born
Birth
" Each movie I make has its own heroes, and the two heroes for me in 'Arrival' are Amy Adams and Joe Walker, the editor. We worked very, very hard, and it was, by far, the longest editing process. "
Denis Villeneuve
Own
Process
Me
" The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer. "
Denis Villeneuve
Must
Director
Architecture
" Repetition is hell. How can we get out of those cycles of violence? How come we are still today talking about peace in Israel? How come we're not able to find a solution yet? Something that will bring peace in this part of the world? It's the same in a lot of places in the world right now. How come we are not able to find peace? "
Denis Villeneuve
Violence
Hell
Now
" I've been dreaming to do sci-fi since I was 10 years old, and I said 'no' to a lot of sequels - I couldn't say 'no' to 'Blade Runner.' "
Denis Villeneuve
Years
Old
Said
" I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class. "
Denis Villeneuve
Movies
Past
Love
" As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew. "
Denis Villeneuve
People
Direction
Ego
" In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth. "
Denis Villeneuve
Truth
Contradiction
Find
" I was at the premiere of 'Prisoners,' and I heard two thousand people scream at the same time. I turned to my wife and said, 'I love cinema!' It's the sharing of emotions together, and it's collective. It's one of the last communions we have. "
Denis Villeneuve
Wife
People
Love
" I didn't think I'd do movies in Los Angeles. I never thought it would happen. In fact, it was not a fantasy. For me, I said, 'If ever I go there, they will ask me to do 'Legally Blonde 5.' "
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Blonde
Said
Thought
" I was saying to myself that I would love to try it once, just one time, to know what it's like to make a movie in Hollywood. I was so curious because most of my favorite directors were there. There's a history; there's a way of working. "
Denis Villeneuve
Love
History
Time
" I always thought, like everyone, that Hollywood was a superhero factory. "
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Superhero
Always
Hollywood
" The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen. "
Denis Villeneuve
Problem
Never
Cinema
" When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy. "
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Joy
Sadness
Mind
" When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story. "
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Listening
Story
Friend
" My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women. "
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Movies
Women
Light
" If I wanted to have total control and be a dictator, I would do ice sculpture in my basement. If I want to make a movie, I'm going to work with 500 people, and I will have to work with their strength and their weakness. "
Denis Villeneuve
Want
Work
Control
" The thing I realized about final cut is it's the power of the best cut. I didn't have final cut on 'Prisoners,' but what you saw is the best cut. 'Sicario' is a directors' cut. 'Arrival' is a directors' cut. "
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Saw
Power
Final
" I'm not someone that loves dialogue - I am someone that loves movement. Action, if it's well done, can be very poetic and meaningful. "
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Someone
Action
Well Done