The 30 Best Quotes from Denis Villeneuve’s Movies

Making love to you would be grandiose, sheer bliss. The apotheosis in life is giving your beloved pleasure.Philippe Despins

Not easy doing nothing. Ever tried it?Simone Prévost

The more I know, the more I doubt. The world makes less and less sense. It’s falling apart.Philippe Despins, (to Simone)

To make love we turned hate around.Title Card

Don’t start feeling guilty. Guilt is useless, you have to accept it.Claire Gunderson, (to Bibiane)

All human actions are manifestations against death.Claire Gunderson, (quoting Bjorn Magnussen)

If I have a boy, I’ll teach him how to love. If I have a girl, I’ll tell her the world is hers.Valérie

Childhood is like a knife stuck in the throat, which cannot be removed easily.Nawal Marwan

Death is never the end of a story. There are still traces.Jean Lebel

One plus one, does it make one?Simon Marwan

Pray for the best, but prepare for the worst.Keller Dover

Eliza Birch: Did you feel bad for that deer when you shot it?Ralph Dover: Do you feel bad for cows when you go into McDonald's?

Making children disappear is the war we wage with God.Holly Jones

Chaos is order yet undeciphered.Title Card

Control, it’s all about control. Every dictatorship has one obsession and that’s it. In ancient Rome they gave the people bread and circuses. They kept population busy with entertainment but other dictatorships used other strategies to control ideas, the knowledge… how do they do that? Lower education, they limit culture, censor information, they censor any means of individual expression and is important to remember this, that this is a pattern, that repeats itself through out history.Anthony

You’re asking me how a watch works. For now, just keep an eye on the time.Alejandro

Every night you have families killed. And yet, here you dine. Tonight should be no different.Alejandro

You should move to a small town, where the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a wolf, and this is the land of wolves now.Alejandro

Memory is a strange thing. It does not work like I thought it did. We are so bound by time. By its order.Louise Banks

If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?Louise Banks, (to Ian)

Language is the foundation of civilization, it is the glue that holds the people together, it is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.Ian Donnelly, (quoting Louise)

Sometimes to love someone, you gotta be a stranger.Rick Deckard

The world is built on a wall. It separates kind. Tell either side there’s no wall, you bought a war. Or a slaughter.Lieutenant Joshi

Every leap of civilization was built off the back of a disposable workforce.Niander Wallace

Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we’re awake.Duncan Idaho

A great man doesn’t seek to lead. He’s called to it.Leto Atreides, (to Paul)

The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process. We must join it. We must flow with it.Jamis, (Paul's vision)

Lead them to paradise.Paul Atreides

He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.Paul Atreides

Repression only makes a religion flourish.Princess Irulan, (to Shaddam IV)