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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.

Michel Gondry

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Michel Gondry
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 8
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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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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've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.
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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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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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I'm always excited to work with actors.
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I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.
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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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It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.
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Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.
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I've dreamed a lot, but i'm not a very good sleeper.
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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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Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
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I was sort of lazy at school, but I realize I still have something to bring to the subject which is comforting. I feel I am not as stupid as I thought I was.
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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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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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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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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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When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.
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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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