I’m very sensitive about the fact that there’s not a lot of good work for women in cinema that also deals with strong characters. But ‘strong character’ doesn’t mean ‘masculine character’ – but something that finds the strength in femininity and the beauty in femininity. And something that says you can find femininity in men in some way. Denis Villeneuve Read Quote
I would be trying to play hockey with my friends, but most of the time, the coach put me on the bench. Because I was too dreamy – I was dreaming all of the time. I was super bad on the ice because I was just thinking about something else. Denis Villeneuve Read Quote
I think that the world is very complex. I think that the movie is a good way to ask questions. To give answers, you would write a lot of books. Denis Villeneuve Read Quote
I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It’s always mysterious. Denis Villeneuve Read Quote
If I wanted to have total control and be a dictator, I would do ice sculpture in my basement. If I want to make a movie, I’m going to work with 500 people, and I will have to work with their strength and their weakness. Denis Villeneuve Read Quote
The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to everybody and to explain specific color, specific ambience. I need to be very precise, but I think I’m a better director when I’m more a channeler than a dictator. Denis Villeneuve Read Quote
I’m someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we’d be living in security. It’s obvious. I’m very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I’m more of a Social Democrat. Denis Villeneuve Read Quote
I feel, since 2001, this huge need for Americans to have superheroes on the screen. This idea that a super-being will protect you. That this being can go above the law but, at the end of the day, would be a good force and defeat the evil. This idea that this half-god exists. This need in the subconscious of America to find these gods. Denis Villeneuve Read Quote
The truth is, I’m someone coming from a spoiled society – the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter. Denis Villeneuve Read Quote
I remember when I read the screenplay for ‘Sicario,’ I fell in love with it, but at the same time, I went, ‘Oh no, not again.’ I mean, I would love to fall in love with something that is more light, like a rom-com or a comedy. I would love to. Because it’s very demanding to go to dark places like this. Denis Villeneuve Read Quote
