Michel Gondry Quotes
I'm just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made - which is great, someday I hope I will do one. But I know the parameters when I got onto this project - I have to take care of everyone, make sure that they are all on board, and this process interests me.
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I am a Buddhist.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.
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I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
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If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.
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That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era.
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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
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I'm just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made - which is great, someday I hope I will do one. But I know the parameters when I got onto this project - I have to take care of everyone, make sure that they are all on board, and this process interests me.
