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. Michel Gondry More Quotes by Michel Gondry More Quotes From Michel Gondry Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. Michel Gondry wall revenge mean 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. Michel Gondry titles way thinking 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. Michel Gondry surrealist poetic want 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. Michel Gondry helping-others people thinking 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. Michel Gondry sound philosophy thinking 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 cameras father kids 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 mtv awards song The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial. Michel Gondry film problem children 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. Michel Gondry cutting jumping jobs I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times. Michel Gondry zombie girlfriend mean I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always liked about animation, particularly abstract animation. You go from the idea to execution, straight from your brain. It's like when you hear someone playing an instrument, and you feel the direct connection between the instrument and his brain, because the instrument becomes an extension of his arms and fingers. It's like a scanner of the brain and thought process that you can watch, or hear. Michel Gondry brain ideas thinking 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? Michel Gondry competition kids ideas Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you. Michel Gondry competition creativity 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. Michel Gondry track ideas moving People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries. Michel Gondry voice believe people I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden. Michel Gondry garden people ideas I'm not judging the films. People make these connections through a film, or because they know them. But the fact that they erase them and have to start from scratch, I think that's an important point. A lot of kids, when they have a camera, have tended to do remakes of existing films. You have a lot of kids that make Star Wars. And I think that's creativity, but not as much creativity as starting from scratch. Michel Gondry creativity war kids If I have a good dream and I wake up happy. When I have an idea, I feel happy. Sometimes achievement and relationships can make me happy. I have a son and to see him grow - he's 22 now - that makes me happy. Michel Gondry achievement dream son 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. Michel Gondry technology opportunity way 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. Michel Gondry actors way thinking
