Michel Gondry Quotes
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I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper.
— Michel Gondry
The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.
— Michel Gondry
You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
— Michel Gondry
It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.
— Michel Gondry
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?
— Michel Gondry
The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.
— Michel Gondry
And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.
— Michel Gondry
I'm always excited to work with actors.
— Michel Gondry
At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.
— Michel Gondry
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.
— Michel Gondry
Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.
— Michel Gondry
Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.
— Michel Gondry
I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal ... something free.
— Michel Gondry