Michel Gondry Quotes
Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
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In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
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I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
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I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a library book. I didn't start acting until I went to college. Once I started, it seemed to fit like a glove. I felt completely at home on stage. It was the perfect way for me to express myself, even better than writing.
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A job is the best cure for poverty, and that's why economic development and job creation has been my principle focus.
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There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because I was an outsider and I wanted that validation of being accepted in the film industry.
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There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind.
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Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
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I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.
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If you underperform for your owners, eventually they pick up their bat and ball and go home.
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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.
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C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected.
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Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his vision: comic, tender, wry, compassionate, full of insight and rueful understanding of what it means to carry on, cream pies in the face, pants falling down as the Green Weenie rampages through our foolish, beautiful lives.
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At the end of the day, the priority is to perform, and the priority is to know that even if women aren't in the spotlight or in the limelight the whole time, we're still bringing in results, and we're still doing what we do best. For me, I'm doing what I love: I love training, I love kayaking and racing, and I'm getting results. Life is good.
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Overly restrictive regulations not only stifle the private sector; they also ultimately hurt consumers.
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We'd go to the crappiest mountain because they had the cheapest lift tickets.
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Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.
