Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuveis a French-Canadian film director and writer. He is a three-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Direction, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies in 2011. All three films also won the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture. Internationally, he is best known for his crime-thrillers Prisonersand Sicario...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth3 October 1967
CountryCanada
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.
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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.
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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.