Denis Villeneuve says phones are “forbidden” on the sets of his movies.
Denis Villeneuve refuses to allow phones on his film sets
The 57-year-old filmmaker reveals that he follows the same approach as fellow director Christopher Nolan when it comes to not allowing the devices during production because he wants members of the cast and crew to be “present” at all times.
Denis told the Los Angeles Times newspaper: “Cinema is an act of presence. When a painter paints, he has to be absolutely focused on the colour he’s putting on the canvas. It’s the same with the dance when he does a gesture.
“With a filmmaker, you have to do that with a crew, and everybody has to focus and be entirely in the present, listening to each other, being in relationship with each other.
“So cellphones are banned on my set too, since Day 1. It’s forbidden. When you say cut, you don’t want someone going to his phone to look at his Facebook account.”
Villeneuve’s acclaimed ‘Dune’ films were criticised by Quentin Tarantino earlier this year as he felt they were remakes of the 1984 David Lynch picture although he respectfully disagrees with the ‘Pulp Fiction’ auteur.
He said: “I respect Tarantino, and I agree that Hollywood has a nostalgia to remake movies and sequels. I’m guilty. I did that with ‘Blade Runner’. But ‘Dune’ is different because it’s an adaptation and totally disconnected from what had been done before. That’s where I disagree.
“But it’s a free country. He can say what he wants. I admire him as an artist.”
Denis revealed that he became fascinated with film after watching Stanley Kubrick’s influential sci-fi epic ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ as a child and revealed that it is his “holy grail” to make a movie that is remembered in the same way.
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