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" I was raised with James Bond. I love James Bond movies. I would love to do a James Bond movie one day. Action is very cinematic. "
Denis Villeneuve
Movies
Action
Bond
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" 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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Action
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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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Dream
Process
" I would be trying to play hockey with my friends, but most of the time, the coach put me on the bench. Because I was too dreamy - I was dreaming all of the time. I was super bad on the ice because I was just thinking about something else. "
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" 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
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Me
" I'm among the hardcore fans of 'Blade Runner.' 'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite movies of all time. It's a movie that is linked with my love and passion for cinema. "
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Time
Passion
Movies
" 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
" 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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Always
Long
Writing
" 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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World
Competition
Dream
" I'm very sensitive about the fact that there's not a lot of good work for women in cinema that also deals with strong characters. But 'strong character' doesn't mean 'masculine character' - but something that finds the strength in femininity and the beauty in femininity. And something that says you can find femininity in men in some way. "
Denis Villeneuve
Work
Women
Beauty
" I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious. "
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Always
Strange
Feeling
" In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth. "
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Truth
Contradiction
Find
" The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience. "
Denis Villeneuve
Writing
Truth Is
Experience
" When I use violence in a movie, it's just to express the power, the impact of it. "
Denis Villeneuve
Just
Movie
Power
" The beauty of Toronto is that it has not been shot a lot in movies, for itself at least. I mean, most of the time, Toronto is shot to portray something else. "
Denis Villeneuve
Toronto
Lot
Movies
" 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 think a good director is a good listener. "
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Director
Think
Listener
" I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle. "
Denis Villeneuve
Spectacle
Idea
Cinema
" When you do casting in Hollywood, it's always the same question: 'Who is available?' "
Denis Villeneuve
Question
Same
You
" 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'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen. "
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You
Powerful
Learning
" I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That's the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I was berserk to make a movie right before. "
Denis Villeneuve
Need
Enemy
Hollywood
" I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength. "
Denis Villeneuve
Me
Strength
Time
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Joy
Sadness
Mind
" The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter. "
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Canada
Winter
Truth Is
" The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen. "
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Problem
Never
Cinema
" I had a lot of respect for Jeremy Renner as an actor before I worked with him, because I was very impressed with what he did in 'The Hurt Locker.' "
Denis Villeneuve
He
Because
Respect
" The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to everybody and to explain specific color, specific ambience. I need to be very precise, but I think I'm a better director when I'm more a channeler than a dictator. "
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Energy
Color
Better
" When there's no technical problems, if you did the right casting, and the scene is well written, the actor will give you a strong performance with his intuition right from the start. "
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Performance
Start
Problems
" I always thought, like everyone, that Hollywood was a superhero factory. "
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Superhero
Always
Hollywood
" I started in documentaries. I started alone with a camera. Alone. Totally alone. Shooting, editing short documentaries for a French-Canadian part of CBC. So to deal with the camera alone, to approach reality alone, meant so much. I made a few dozen small documentaries, and that was the birth of a way to approach reality with a camera. "
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Small
Camera
Reality