Denis Villeneuve Quotes

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

I have got a good imagination.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've seen to an expression I've heard someone use.

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

Every kid has a story to tell!

I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I loved the world of imagination.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

I have a very vivid imagination.

I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.