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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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.
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There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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The whole point of creativity is that it has no boundaries of language, region, and age.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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.
