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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
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Michel Gondry
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 8
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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.'
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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.
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Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
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