Michel Gondry Quotes
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.
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I like risky stuff.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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I love actors.
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Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.
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What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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The personal stuff for me is the best, ... And this one felt a little raw emotionally. I wanted to capture some stuff, to see if I could get it right. The way it feels to lose a loved one and find a reason to celebrate, oddly enough, as a result of learning who you are.
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I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.
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As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.
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As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.
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I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.
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If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.
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I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I often don't sit through the new films.
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Every time I prep a script, I hear it in my head, but I have to keep my mind open so that when an actor does something different than that, I can think, 'Well, that wasn't what I had in mind, but it works. Let's go with that.' That's why you hire actors and not technicians to do voiceovers, because someone who will creatively bring something to the party.
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I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
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What happened basically is that they were doing a figure-8 bus race, and the driver was ejected and run over
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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.
