Denis Villeneuve (French: [dəni vilnœv]; born October 3, 1967) is a French-Canadian film director and writer. Read full biography of Denis Villeneuve →
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... →
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... →
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... →
Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the... →
I think a good director is a good listener.
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... →
I think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart... →
My home is Montreal. I will stay in Montreal and continue to make movies in Montreal. But it's also very healthy for Canadian filmmakers to work... →
I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.
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.
My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.
The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.
Denis Villeneuve (French: [dəni vilnœv]; born October 3, 1967) is a French-Canadian film director and writer.