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" 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
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" 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
" If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society. "
Denis Villeneuve
Society
Shadows
Human
" '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
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Music
Team
See
" '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 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema. "
Denis Villeneuve
Art
Cinema
False
" 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. "
Denis Villeneuve
Thinking
Hockey
Friends
" 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
" 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
" I remember when I read the screenplay for 'Sicario,' I fell in love with it, but at the same time, I went, 'Oh no, not again.' I mean, I would love to fall in love with something that is more light, like a rom-com or a comedy. I would love to. Because it's very demanding to go to dark places like this. "
Denis Villeneuve
Love
Dark
Fall
" 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
" 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
" From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded. "
Denis Villeneuve
After
Scripts
Get
" I think a good director is a good listener. "
Denis Villeneuve
Director
Think
Listener
" 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
" 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 not someone that loves dialogue - I am someone that loves movement. Action, if it's well done, can be very poetic and meaningful. "
Denis Villeneuve
Someone
Action
Well Done
" 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
" 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 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 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 always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious. "
Denis Villeneuve
Always
Strange
Feeling
" Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves. "
Denis Villeneuve
Sometimes
Inside
You