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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
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Michel Gondry
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 8
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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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You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.
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People always say there is competition in nature, but I think that because we are human, it's not only competition. Because we are human we have something other than competition - sharing, helping others, or being oneself. Competition is really kind of ugly.
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It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.
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I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.
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Objectivity is very hard to achieve. It needs some research and patience. If you want to do something honest, you have to explore it a little longer.
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I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.
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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.
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I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.
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I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.
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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.
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I'm always excited to work with actors.
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I have a video store next to my apartment in Paris, and they still have most of their videos on VHS. A lot of people think Be Kind Rewind is set in the past because they just wipe this reality out of their head, but it is true that there are a lot of movies that don't exist on DVD. But I'm not like a big movie buff.
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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.
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I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.
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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.
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At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.
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Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.
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If people don't like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.
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In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.
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