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At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

Michel Gondry

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Michel Gondry
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 8
Actor
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Director
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I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don't like cynical people. I don't like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy. You don't have to justify it. You don't have to fight for it.
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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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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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