Michel Gondry Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

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• 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

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• In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.

  Michel Gondry

  Serious, Slick

  "‘Green Hornet’ Director Michel Gondry Talks Hardships In Hollywood". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. January 19, 2011.

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• 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

  Thinking, Formal, Interest

  "Seth Rogen, Director Michel Gondry, Evan Goldberg and Producer Neal Moritz Interview GREEN HORNET". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 21, 2010.

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• I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, Actors, Achieve

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

  Michel Gondry

  Sometimes, Film, Abstraction

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Sometimes, when people use too much blue screen in movies, the actors don't look credible, because they have their own opinion of what the thing will look like, and each person has a different opinion.

  Michel Gondry

  Blue, People, Different Opinions

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• 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

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• I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

  Michel Gondry

  Blue, Actors, Connecting

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, Actors, Stuff

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.

  Michel Gondry

  Character, Personality, Use

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• 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

  Ideas, Filters, Use

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• 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

  Funny Things, Voice, People

  "Michel Gondry on His Animated Noam Chomsky Doc and the Money It Takes to Dream Big". Interview with Matt Patches, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2013.

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• I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It's basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.

  Michel Gondry

  Art, Moving, Fall

  "Michel Gondry on His Animated Noam Chomsky Doc and the Money It Takes to Dream Big". Interview with Matt Patches, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2013.

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• Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's like watching a 'making of' within the story. You see the physical aspect, the construction of things.

  Michel Gondry

  Kids, Stories, Done

  "Michel Gondry on His Animated Noam Chomsky Doc and the Money It Takes to Dream Big". Interview with Matt Patches, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2013.

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• I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, Purpose, Want

  "Michel Gondry & Charlie Kaufman". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2004.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.

  Michel Gondry

  People, Week, Shows

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

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• 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

  Hate, Buttons, Pushing

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

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• The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.

  Michel Gondry

  Competition, Peaceful, Friendly

  "Director Michel Gondry Talks IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, His Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Using Hand-Drawn Illustrations, and UBIK Adaptation". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 20, 2013.

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• The idea that competition is pointless is really something that speaks to me, especially in America where competition is really prominent and very overwhelming, and it doesn't bring the best out in you because what's going to push you is to bring others down.

  Michel Gondry

  Ideas, America, Competition

  Source: collider.com

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• I was sort of lazy at school, but I realize I still have something to bring to the subject which is comforting. I feel I am not as stupid as I thought I was.

  Michel Gondry

  Stupid, School, Comforting

  "Director Michel Gondry Talks IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, His Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Using Hand-Drawn Illustrations, and UBIK Adaptation". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 20, 2013.

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