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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.

Michel Gondry

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Michel Gondry
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 8
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I'm always excited to work with actors.
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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'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 just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made - which is great, someday I hope I will do one. But I know the parameters when I got onto this project - I have to take care of everyone, make sure that they are all on board, and this process interests me.
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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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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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Orange is an underrated color, it's the second most underrated color after yellow.
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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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In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.
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You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.
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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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I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.
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