Denis Villeneuve

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.

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 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.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.