Denis Villeneuve famous quotes

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

#Kids #Listening #Mind

I think a good director is a good listener.
-- Denis Villeneuve

#Thinking #Good Listener

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.
-- Denis Villeneuve

#Dictator #Sometimes #Subconscious

You cannot make promises because you never know what your next project will be.
-- Denis Villeneuve

#Promise

The movies I did before were movies with a lot of characters, a lot of locations, and low budgets, which meant that I was running all over the place and never had the chance to build a relationship with an actor. I was always having big, strong relationships with the cinematographers or editors or production designers, but not with the actors.
-- Denis Villeneuve

#Running #Strong #Character

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.

I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.

My girl and my kid gets the best, always.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

The art of life is loving and listening to one another.

Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.