List of Michel Gondry Quotes

I've Always Loved 3d. In Fact, As A Kid, I Was Exposed To 3d At An Early Age Because My Grandfather Was A Specialist Of 3d In Cinematheques. And Then My Cousin Put It In 'science Of Sleep' With Toilet Paper Tube Cities. But He Was A Specialist And I Always Wanted To Do Something In 3d.

Pop Music Is Created By Repression - And Then The System Takes It And Makes Even More Money With It!

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.

The Problem Is, With A Lot Of Children's Films, They Are Very Commercial.

I Don't Call Cut Between The Takes - It's My Way To Help The Actor Keep Focused. As Soon As You Say 'cut' You Have 10 People Jumping On Them And Everybody's Trying To Do A Great Job, And They Do, But Sometimes They Forget That The More Important Thing Is The Performance, Creating The Performance.

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.

Michael Jackson Will Always Be My Favorite Pop Musician; He Was For Years And Years Until His Death, Which Was Horrible To Me. So I Like Pop Culture. But To Me, Even If It's Popular, There Is A Quality In The Music You Have To Be Able To Appreciate.

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.

I'm Attracted To Working With Comedians Because They Don't Have That Stars' Idea Of What A Hero Should Be. The Downside Is They're Always Addressing The Camera Too Much.

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.

I Think Animation Is A Very Truthful Way To Express Your Thoughts, Because The Process Is Very Direct. That's What I've Always Liked About Animation, Particularly Abstract Animation. You Go From The Idea To Execution, Straight From Your Brain. It's Like When You Hear Someone Playing An Instrument, And You Feel The Direct Connection Between The Instrument And His Brain, Because The Instrument Becomes An Extension Of His Arms And Fingers. It's Like A Scanner Of The Brain And Thought Process That You Can Watch, Or Hear.

I Don't Want To Compare Myself To Him - I Don't Want People To See Me As This Great Genius - But When I See Charlie Chaplin's Movies There Is A Combination Of Drama, Naivety And Social Meaning That I Can See In Myself, At A Different Level.