Quotes from Denis Villeneuve

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 outside the country. You learn so much.

I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to the actors. I tried to make my own school.

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

A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.

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