Michel Gondry Quotes

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• Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

  Michel Gondry

  Fun, Stupid, Ideas

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• In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

  Michel Gondry

  Crazy, Real, Interesting

  "Michel Gondry Pinch Hits For Tokyo!" by Ayako Fujitani and Ryo Kase, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 6, 2009.

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• 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

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• I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper.

  Michel Gondry

  Very Good, Sleepers

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• I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

  Michel Gondry

  Nice, Thinking, Cynical

  "How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

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• I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, People, Choices

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• Orange is an underrated color, it's the second most underrated color after yellow.

  Michel Gondry

  Color, Yellow, Orange

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

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• 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

  Confused, Inspiration, Creativity

  "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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• 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

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• 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

  Block, Film, Constructs

  Interview with Sandra Hebron, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2007.

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• Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.

  Michel Gondry

  Creative, Mind, Collaboration

  "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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• You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

  Michel Gondry

  Philosophy, Thinking, Sound

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• All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

  Michel Gondry

  Phones, Brain, Gadgets

  "Michel Gondry: 'That's my new policy - self-censorship'" by Nick Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2009.

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• 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

  Technology, Use, Method

  "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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• 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

  Thinking, Actors, Way

  "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 it's interesting to see something that you're not used to seeing, which is the main ingredient of life, and it's removed from the usual entertainment. I think it's important to give the opportunity to people to witness the life of somebody who was not public.

  Michel Gondry

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

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• It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.

  Michel Gondry

  Jobs, Reality, Emotional

  "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 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

  Thinking, Tone, Consistent

  "Not Quite Human: Michel Gondry Makes The Leap To Features With 'Human Nature'". Interview with Guy V. Cimbalo, www.indiewire.com. April 11, 2002.

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• 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

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• If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

  Michel Gondry

  Children, Boston, World

  "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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• I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

  Michel Gondry

  Team, Cameras, Littles

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• I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.

  Michel Gondry

  People, Competition, Defeat

  "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'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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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