Michel Gondry Quotes

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.
Michel Gondry

Money, Happy, Wrong

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
Michel Gondry

Music, Money, Makes

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

Life, Important, Give

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.
Michel Gondry

Trying, Times, Movie

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

Beauty, Whatever, Film

The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.
Michel Gondry

Time, Put, Idea

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

Time, Wrong, Reason

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.
Michel Gondry

Children, Problem, Films

There's nothing worse than a dream sequence done all in post-production.
Michel Gondry

Nothing, Done, Dream

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.
Michel Gondry

Good, Remember, Sometimes

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

Yourself, Philosophy, Find

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 8, 1963

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