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
manipulate
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.
condemned deal human repeat society
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.
coming movies spectrum violent women
My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.
built player social worst
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.
coming
Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
ideas listen people quickly stronger tough
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.
predict
The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.