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" I always thought, like everyone, that Hollywood was a superhero factory. "
Denis Villeneuve
Superhero
Always
Hollywood
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" 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. "
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" My home is Montreal. I will stay in Montreal and continue to make movies in Montreal. But it's also very healthy for Canadian filmmakers to work outside the country. You learn so much. "
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" 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. "
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Want
Work
Control
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Think
Always
Hollywood
" I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists. "
Denis Villeneuve
Work
Great
Opportunities
" From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded. "
Denis Villeneuve
After
Scripts
Get
" When you do casting in Hollywood, it's always the same question: 'Who is available?' "
Denis Villeneuve
Question
Same
You
" I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat. "
Denis Villeneuve
Peace
Say
World
" 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
" My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women. "
Denis Villeneuve
Movies
Women
Light
" I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to the actors. I tried to make my own school. "
Denis Villeneuve
School
See
Own
" In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth. "
Denis Villeneuve
Truth
Contradiction
Find
" '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
" '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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Film
Language
Intuition
" It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make. "
Denis Villeneuve
Choosing
Movies
Make
" When I use violence in a movie, it's just to express the power, the impact of it. "
Denis Villeneuve
Just
Movie
Power
" Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing. "
Denis Villeneuve
Always
Long
Writing
" The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter. "
Denis Villeneuve
Canada
Winter
Truth Is
" In a way, the truth is that I was dreaming to do a movie in the United States just because, as a filmmaker, I always loved the idea of trying to make movies in a different culture, in a different way. It's always interesting to make a movie abroad. "
Denis Villeneuve
Truth Is
Truth
Interesting
" 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
" I feel that one of the fields that I need to learn a lot is screenwriting. I used to write my own screenplays, but it's just that I remember that at that time, I was saying to myself, 'I wish one day I will meet a screenwriter that will help me because I feel that I need to learn.' "
Denis Villeneuve
Saying
Day
Me
" 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
" Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do. "
Denis Villeneuve
Essence
Making
Camera
" 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
Understand
Say
I Am
" Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture. "
Denis Villeneuve
Way
I Can
Art
" 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
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Listening
Story
Friend
" I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words. "
Denis Villeneuve
Love
Language
Words
" I think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. I try to approach it and understand it... I'm just visiting fears. "
Denis Villeneuve
Fear
Try
Think