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 Read Quote
I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn’t get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them. Michel Gondry Read Quote
My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks. Michel Gondry Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t like the idea of competition – maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it’s better to be the one who loses? Michel Gondry Read Quote
All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that’s bad. Michel Gondry Read Quote
I think it’s a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it. Michel Gondry Read Quote
I’m part of the consumer culture… I’m just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I’m part of the consumer system but I’m advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, ‘let’s consume even more.’ Michel Gondry Read Quote
