Denis Villeneuve Quotes

Denis Villeneuve — Canadian Director born on October 03, 1967,

Denis Villeneuve is a French-Canadian film director and writer. He is a three-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Director, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies in 2011. All three films also won the Best Picture award... (wikipedia)

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.

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

My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.

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.

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 Quotes

Login with