{"author":"Denis Villeneuve","author_id":"Denis+Villeneuve","total_quotes":13,"quotes":[{"text":"Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.","author":"Denis Villeneuve","tags":["culture","i can","way "],"id":505,"author_id":"Denis+Villeneuve"},{"text":"In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.","author":"Denis Villeneuve","tags":["you","find","paradox "],"id":16193,"author_id":"Denis+Villeneuve"},{"text":"'2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Blade Runner.' And 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is also one of my favorites. I'm always looking for sci-fi material, and it's difficult to find original and strong material that's not just about weaponry.","author":"Denis Villeneuve","tags":["strong","me","looking "],"id":73985,"author_id":"Denis+Villeneuve"},{"text":"I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.","author":"Denis Villeneuve","tags":["time","me","slow "],"id":92088,"author_id":"Denis+Villeneuve"},{"text":"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.","author":"Denis Villeneuve","tags":["work","control","people "],"id":149052,"author_id":"Denis+Villeneuve"},{"text":"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.","author":"Denis Villeneuve","tags":["work","beauty","women "],"id":168821,"author_id":"Denis+Villeneuve"},{"text":"'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.","author":"Denis Villeneuve","tags":["love","me","birth "],"id":197061,"author_id":"Denis+Villeneuve"},{"text":"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.","author":"Denis Villeneuve","tags":["happy","world","security "],"id":241523,"author_id":"Denis+Villeneuve"},{"text":"Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.","author":"Denis Villeneuve","tags":["camera","essence","making "],"id":282897,"author_id":"Denis+Villeneuve"},{"text":"I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. When they arrived here, the only way to keep dreaming was to make movies. Film was the fourth dimension.","author":"Denis Villeneuve","tags":["world","think","hollywood "],"id":290598,"author_id":"Denis+Villeneuve"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}