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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
-
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
-
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
-
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.
-
I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
-
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.
-
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
-
I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
-
In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
-
I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
-
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.
-
A job is the best cure for poverty, and that's why economic development and job creation has been my principle focus.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
-
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.
-
If you underperform for your owners, eventually they pick up their bat and ball and go home.
-
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.
-
Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
-
The biggest mistake in my life was hiring Eaton as chairman without checking him out first, ... I didn't know him and hired the wrong guy, an error of judgment. When you make a bad people choice it hurts a lot of people for a long time.
-
Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
-
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
-
Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something like that. Or sax - I mean, I'm definitely having some sax. That's just what I love. It's going to be jazz-rock stuff. That's what I'm aiming for.
-
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.
