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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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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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.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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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?
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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.
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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.
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I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.
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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.
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A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
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I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not a racist.
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I'd date a fan as long as she didn't scream in my face.
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All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.
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Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.
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Whatever steps you may feel compelled to take, whether they are constitutional, or whether in the long run they are unconstitutional, you have the whole Unionist Party, under my leadership, behind you.
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I feel like nowadays everyone perceives you the same way. You can't even have a private life away from your family; it's like everything is very hands-on!
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To act for a living is a gift, and understanding you're a lucky bloke keeps your feet on the ground.
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While the grasse groweth the horse starveth.
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You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.
