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If I could have made movies without any dialogue, it would have been paradise.

Dialogues for me belong to theater or television. I mean, I'm not someone who remembers movies because of their lines. I remember movies because of their images, because of the ideas that are being hidden or unfold through images. And that's the power of cinema. For me, it's not about dialogue.

And I hope one day I will be able to make a movie with as less dialogue as possible.

By the way, that's why silent movies were so powerful and still today the best movies. I mean, it's like normally a great movie, you should be able to watch it without sound. And that's the ultimate goal, yes.
-- Denis Villeneuve. The Making Of 'Dune', Fresh Air, (Mar 2, 2024).
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