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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

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Michel Gondry
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 8
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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.
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I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It's basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.
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