Michel Gondry Quotes
Top 41 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Michel Gondry on Wise Famous Quotes.
The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.
I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.
I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.
I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.
I love 3D a lot, I have a great interest in 3D, so if I am given the tools to do a project with 3D, it's a dream for me.
My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.
I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.
I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.
If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.
Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.
I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.
You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.
It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.
The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life.
In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.
It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.
My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.
Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.
The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.
There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.
I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?
I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.
Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.
I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal ... something free.