Michel Gondry Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?”

“At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.”

“I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.”

“Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!”

“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.”

“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.”

“The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.”