Denis Villeneuve: ‘Cell Phones Are Banned on My Sets. It’s Forbidden. When You Say Cut, You Don’t Want Someone’ Checking Facebook
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Denis Villeneuve recently spoke to the Los Angeles Times and shared his discomfort over how “human beings are ruled by algorithms right now.” He explained: “We behave like AI circuits.
The ways we see the world are narrow-minded binaries. We’re disconnecting from each other, and society is crumbling in some ways.
It’s frightening.” The Times columnist Glenn Whipp noted that Villeneuve shared these thoughts while checking his phone. The “Dune” filmmaker said “there’s something addictive about the fact that you can access any information, any song, any book” from your phone. “It’s compulsive.
It’s like a drug. I’m very tempted to disconnect myself. It would be fresh air.” But the one place cell phone addiction can not exist is on a film set.
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