Denis Villeneuve Quotes

Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.

You can only shoot small movies and documentaries for so long if you want to have a family that you support; eventually, you need to get let into the big leagues.

A film career is a natural progression for any model and i'm sure this trend will continue.

Though I was aware that the success rate in film industry was one percent and how difficult it was to survive, I wanted to try my luck as an actor.

I never knew that I would even be making English-language films.

When you start out, you're hungry to take any job. I didn't go to film school - I went from high school to a show about high school and on to directing.

The thing about movies is that till it goes on floors, it's just preparations for the film.

I was offered my first film right after my 10th board exams. Back then, I didn't even know they made films in the South. Films, I thought, were either in Hindi or English.

I just want to write another record that's as good or better than the one I've already made. That's my main goal, to follow up stronger than before.

'Vikram Vedha' is special because it has taken me to the next level in my career.

I was fortunate to write pretty much a year out of film school and start making movies in the Hollywood studio system. But with each progressive film it became more frustrating not being able to speak and say things I wanted to say.

Hollywood has got technology, method, and discipline.

I had to put in my time all through my 20s. Then I came to CNN in 2008 as a freelancer with no guarantees.

There is a future for English films. Don't we all talk, breathe, and think in English? If we can talk and think in English, we can also make films in English.

For me, it was pretty hard to go into the studio and sing English for the first time, because I always sung in German, and we've been making music for seven years and it's always been in German.

I have always said I am a player who looks for new challenges.

Even if it flops, when you're sitting at the drawing table, you dream about seeing your work on the big screen, no matter what.

I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive - no offense to the beautiful world of feature film.

I'm only ambitious in the sense that I want to work in as many different media as I can and to play characters which are different to me and to each other. I want to do work that frightens me or challenges me, be it in Dublin or Zimbabwe. I just want to be working.

I made my film debut in 1973.

It takes one heck of a lot of energy to be an actor-director - a rather terrifying prospect but a challenge I would definitely relish in the future, given the chance.

The film business is just one of our verticals. We have wanted for some time to make inroads into the English language market, because I think that over time such films can cross over into the international market.

I would want to believe that every film I do turns out to be the turning point of my career.

I was in a very lucky position to be able to consider studio films and had decided to not go that route for a very long time until I read a script that I loved called 'Aeon Flux.'

When I left Leipzig I was thinking about my next step, and I want to stand in front of a new team, new language, to get developed personally and in my view of football. That's why I made the decision to come to Southampton.