Dune 2 director Denis Villeneuve bans the same item from his movie sets as Christopher Nolan because "everybody has to focus and be entirely in the present"

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We behave like AI circuits.

The ways we see the world are narrow-minded binaries.

Were disconnecting from each other, and society is crumbling in some ways.

Its like a drug."

Because of this, he, like Nolan, bans cellphones on his film sets.

“Cinema is an act of presence,” he explains.

Its the same with the dancer when he does a gesture.

So cellphones are banned on my set too, since Day .