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Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

- Denis Villeneuve
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Denis Villeneuve
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I feel, since 2001, this huge need for Americans to have superheroes on the screen. This idea that a super-being will protect you. That this being can go above the law but, at the end of the day, would be a good force and defeat the evil. This idea that this half-god exists. This need in the subconscious of America to find these gods.

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.

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience.

The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.

I feel that one of the fields that I need to learn a lot is screenwriting. I used to write my own screenplays, but it's just that I remember that at that time, I was saying to myself, 'I wish one day I will meet a screenwriter that will help me because I feel that I need to learn.'

I remember when I read the screenplay for 'Sicario,' I fell in love with it, but at the same time, I went, 'Oh no, not again.' I mean, I would love to fall in love with something that is more light, like a rom-com or a comedy. I would love to. Because it's very demanding to go to dark places like this.

When I think of the 1980s, the only color that comes to mind is a brown, yellowish color. I guess it's coming from my life experience, and it's melancholia and sadness and a bit of joy.

The reception for 'Enemy?' I don't care. No matter what other people think, it was important for me. I will stand for that movie, even if I stand alone.

I would be trying to play hockey with my friends, but most of the time, the coach put me on the bench. Because I was too dreamy - I was dreaming all of the time. I was super bad on the ice because I was just thinking about something else.

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Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.