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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.

~Denis Villeneuve

Topics: Actor Because Creativity Crew Does Film Job Learning Listen Make More More And More Powerful Share Them Tough You

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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

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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

Topics: Cinema Collective Emotions Heard Last Love People Premiere Prisoners Said Same Same Time Scream Sharing Thousand Time Together Turned Two Wife I Love

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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

Topics: Across Art Art Form Borders Cinema Close Culture Designed Direct Feel Filmmaker Form Go Movie Only Way I Feel I Can

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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

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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

Topics: Able Amazed Became Coming Countryside Deal Director Early He Hero Impressed Introduced Massive Me Movies Quickly Spielberg Stories Tell Very Way Wonders World Writing Young

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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

Topics: Because Better Crew Ego Evil Film Humility Ideas Listen Makes Often People Quickly See Some Some People Stronger Than Them Then Tough Very Who Working You Yours

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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

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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.

~Denis Villeneuve

Topics: Aiming Aside Better Bit Choosing Crew Dictator Direction Director Ego Everybody Feel Film Ideas Long Main Means Open Other Partners People Process Put Same Same Direction Tougher You I Feel

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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

Topics: After Big Closer Coming Difference Dream Experience Experienced Feel Films Gap Had Huge Huge Difference Make More Movies Now Screen Screenplay Sometimes Started Terrified Truth Truth Is Writing I Feel

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Director

Born: October 3rd, 1967

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