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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.
Michel Gondry
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Michel Gondry
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 8
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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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If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.
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I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.
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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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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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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 don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.
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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.
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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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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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I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.
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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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In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.
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At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.
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Sometimes, when people use too much blue screen in movies, the actors don't look credible, because they have their own opinion of what the thing will look like, and each person has a different opinion.
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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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If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.
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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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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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