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" In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada. "
Denis Villeneuve
Canada
Worst
Identity
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" 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
" 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.' "
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Remember
Small
Time
" The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen. "
Denis Villeneuve
Problem
Never
Cinema
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Time
Passion
Movies
" '2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Blade Runner.' And 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is also one of my favorites. I'm always looking for sci-fi material, and it's difficult to find original and strong material that's not just about weaponry. "
Denis Villeneuve
Find
Kind
Looking
" On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film. "
Denis Villeneuve
Evil
You
People
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
World
Competition
Dream
" I think a good director is a good listener. "
Denis Villeneuve
Director
Think
Listener
" I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle. "
Denis Villeneuve
Spectacle
Idea
Cinema
" 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
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Energy
Color
Better
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Person
Comedy
Dr
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Joy
Society
Space
" 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
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Small
Camera
Reality
" 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
" Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves. "
Denis Villeneuve
Sometimes
Inside
You
" 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
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Performance
Start
Problems
" '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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious. "
Denis Villeneuve
Always
Strange
Feeling
" 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
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Saw
Power
Final
" 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
" 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
" For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It's very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now. "
Denis Villeneuve
Control
Women
Listening
" '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