Latest Michel Gondry Quotes from Interviews

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• If I have a good dream and I wake up happy. When I have an idea, I feel happy. Sometimes achievement and relationships can make me happy. I have a son and to see him grow - he's 22 now - that makes me happy.

  Michel Gondry

  Dream, Son, Achievement

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

  Michel Gondry

  Creativity, Competition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People always say there is competition in nature, but I think that because we are human, it's not only competition. Because we are human we have something other than competition - sharing, helping others, or being oneself. Competition is really kind of ugly.

  Michel Gondry

  Helping Others, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work and therefore do them, because I would have no doubt even though there was no solid foundation for this confidence. I don't think I would be a real inventor. But when I set out to do animation, which was my first step into film-making, I realised I could achieve this idea. I could take some elements, create a sort of clumsy invention, and make them work for the camera.

  Michel Gondry

  Father, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I like to use a bit of chaos when I shoot. I think it may be something from the way I shot my first film - I was very scared, of course, and I prepared everything, I wanted to make sure that the characters did the right thing at the right time on the storyboard. But then I realised that in life, there is so much more than what you can predict or write in advance, that when you shoot the story, it's good to leave some gaps where you lose control. I think this combination of chaos and organisation gives a kind of quality.

  Michel Gondry

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I'm going to work with Dan Clowes. After Charlie Kaufman, it's hard to fill up the gap. It's hard to find somebody who... A lot of writers, I can clearly see the desire of succeeding before the desire of expressing themselves. Sometimes people get upset when you want to be different. You were talking about "whimsical," which is a nice word. But sometimes they use the word "quirky" in the pejorative sense. I get frustrated, because they feel like I'm doing whatever I want, and there is no ground, and I don't really care. They feel it's cynical. But I don't think I have any cynicism in me.

  Michel Gondry

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don't like cynical people. I don't like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy. You don't have to justify it. You don't have to fight for it.

  Michel Gondry

  Hate, Fighting, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think the tools were always available, for decades and decades, to make your own film and be creative. I don't think people had to wait for YouTube to do this type of small project. YouTube, I think it's great. I have this idiotic satisfaction. And I think there's a bit of that in YouTube. You share, true, but it's centralized, and it's already sort of controlled. I'm more for something that's not a centralized medium. Like doing your own film and screening it yourself. You cannot control people doing that.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's a very American thing that everything has to be a business. Americans think... I like America, or I would not be here. There are great qualities to this country. But this sense that everything has to be a business is sometimes overwhelming.

  Michel Gondry

  Country, Thinking, Quality

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I find it particularly shocking that people work all week long, and then on the weekend they give their money to another big corporation. I remember reading an interview with Walt Disney, and he said how he got the idea to create Disney World. He saw his grandson playing in the sand in a little park, and he assumed he was bored. And he said he could provide him a better alternative. But what you get is a little bit of entertainment, and then basically they try to get your money. And I truly believe his grandson was having a great time when he was playing with the sand.

  Michel Gondry

  Reading, Believe, Weekend

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When I was young, I would stay in my backyard and I would create roads and tunnels and systems. My uncle had a sawmill, and we had all sorts of pieces of wood, and we'd create a city. I truly believe that kids enjoy the box better than the car or the toy that's inside. So many times during Christmas, watching a kid, or even myself... There is excitement toward your toy, but then you put the toy on the side and something is created with the package.

  Michel Gondry

  Believe, Kids, Car

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I kind of like the idea of taking a concept and going all the way with it, even if it's not completely plausible. It's something that I like about making movies. You have a concept that maybe would not work in real life, but you can make it work in the world you're creating.

  Michel Gondry

  Real, Real Life, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

• You don't watch home movie for the technique, you watch because it's reminiscing on good moments you spent with your friends. It reflects you. It belongs to you. So I was thinking people could, instead of spending their money to go and see a blockbuster, make their own movies. Collect the money and make a new one every week. I thought it would be nice to create a world that makes this construct possible.

  Michel Gondry

  Nice, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm not judging the films. People make these connections through a film, or because they know them. But the fact that they erase them and have to start from scratch, I think that's an important point. A lot of kids, when they have a camera, have tended to do remakes of existing films. You have a lot of kids that make Star Wars. And I think that's creativity, but not as much creativity as starting from scratch.

  Michel Gondry

  War, Creativity, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I have a video store next to my apartment in Paris, and they still have most of their videos on VHS. A lot of people think Be Kind Rewind is set in the past because they just wipe this reality out of their head, but it is true that there are a lot of movies that don't exist on DVD. But I'm not like a big movie buff.

  Michel Gondry

  Past, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Objectivity is very hard to achieve. It needs some research and patience. If you want to do something honest, you have to explore it a little longer.

  Michel Gondry

  Objectivity, Needs, Research

  Source: www.chud.com

• You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.

  Michel Gondry

  Sorry, Needs, Scene

  "Michel Gondry Exclusive Video Interview THE GREEN HORNET; Plus an Update on His Animated Noam Chomsky Documentary". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

• And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.

  Michel Gondry

  Guy, Stuff, My Time

  "Michel Gondry Exclusive Video Interview THE GREEN HORNET; Plus an Update on His Animated Noam Chomsky Documentary". INterview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Special, Together, Want

  "Michel Gondry Exclusive Video Interview THE GREEN HORNET; Plus an Update on His Animated Noam Chomsky Documentary". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Thinking, Get Better, Results

  "Michel Gondry Exclusive Video Interview THE GREEN HORNET; Plus an Update on His Animated Noam Chomsky Documentary". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

• If people don't like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.

  Michel Gondry

  People, Blame, Made

  "Michel Gondry Exclusive Video Interview THE GREEN HORNET; Plus an Update on His Animated Noam Chomsky Documentary". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

• 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

  Judging, Directors, Done

  "Michel Gondry Exclusive Video Interview THE GREEN HORNET; Plus an Update on His Animated Noam Chomsky Documentary". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

• I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don't judge the director based on the trailer. Please.

  Michel Gondry

  Judging, Directors, Doe

  "Michel Gondry Exclusive Video Interview THE GREEN HORNET; Plus an Update on His Animated Noam Chomsky Documentary". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 12, 2011.

• I'm always excited to work with actors.

  Michel Gondry

  Actors, Excited

  "Michel Gondry Talks THE WE AND THE I, Finding the Teenage Characters, and MOOD INDIGO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2013.

• 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

  Ideas, Want, Unusual

  "Michel Gondry Talks THE WE AND THE I, Finding the Teenage Characters, and MOOD INDIGO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2013.