Michel Gondry Quotes

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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• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Real
  • Rich
  • Poor

• What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Dance

• I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Tree

• I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Think
  • Career
  • Cooking

• But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Healthy
  • Clear
  • Inequality

• We trolls say: 'Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Night
  • Trolls

• In my youth, growing up in a Jewish milieu, there was one thing we did not have to look for and that was exaltation. Every moment is great, we were taught, every moment is unique.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • Mom

• I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

  

  Debbie Gibson
  • People
  • Life

• I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

  

  Jean Renoir
  • Life
  • Movie

• I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina

• I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Life
  • Energy

• When horror films are made in times of political strife, I think they're not made with an instinct to add to the chaos but to bring shape to it.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Political
  • Chaos

• When I'm writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there's a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

  

  Dean Karnazes
  • Power
  • Running
  • Simple

• I'm not a racist.

  

  Donald Sterling

• If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the rejection is universal, then it is the self-destructive proposition that there are no true propositions. If the rejection is limited to the dogmas, then it is just a roundabout way of saying that all the dogmas are false.

  

  Bernard Lonergan
  • Truth
  • Rejection
  • False

• In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Needs
  • Existence
  • Pleasures

• One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Comedy
  • Language
  • Deal

• You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Sorry