Dominic Goyer

Quebecois writer-director.
Réalisateur-scénariste québécois.

L’origine des espèces [On My Mother’s Side] (2016)

[✧˖ @colditioner]

a lot of movies seem terrified of letting a scene exist without a purpose. everything has to reveal character, advance the plot, establish a theme or foreshadow something. sometimes a scene can just be people sitting around talking nonsense. cinema could use more useless moments

[Dominic Goyer @domgoyer]

@tonytost It reminds me of Jean-Paul Lemieux’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth. It created outrage in 1977.

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@Scott_Heim It would make a great film.

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@Scott_Heim Quebec cinema!!! ;-)

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@Scott_Heim With some fava beans and a nice chianti.

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@Scott_Heim I swear! Sometimes I really feel like we're cut from the same cloth: I gave a presentation on the coelacanth at school.

[Francis Lee @strawhousefilms]

It’s more important than ever that gay films/stories are written/directed by gay writers/directors/film makers. Their voices are the authenticity of these stories NOT the actors who act in them. As interpretive artists, the actors identity/orientation is irrelevant.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

why do interviewers so often pretend to be opaque, ingenuous? I am still being asked, after decades, "why is your writing so violent?" as if words are not reflective of a time & a culture. as if violence exists nowhere except in fiction & is purely a personal predilection.

[Dominic Goyer @domgoyer]

@Scott_Heim I’ll take : “Great inspirations for stories » for 500$.

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@Scott_Heim Curious to hear about your top 10.

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@MaritzasGrande Never mind.

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@JarettSays All filmed in a long sequence for maximum effect.

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@odienator You think it will be a misunderstood masterpiece?

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@SoWhatBlowMe Role model? Nina.

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@JBfromDC89

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@samvanhallgren This.

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@kmstx78 THIS!!!!!!

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@BreakingByrd @gwynn1984 @kristapley This. All of this.

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@MehdiOmais

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@nathanielr Can we distribute the 9 Oscars as we want? I would give one to Kristin Scott Thomas and Ralph Fiennes for sure.