Michel Gondry Quotes
I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
Quotes to Explore
-
Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
-
I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
-
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
-
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
-
I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
-
My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
-
America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
-
I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
-
Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.
-
When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
-
Dressing is a way of life.
-
Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
-
We are made up of multiple emotions. And it would be unnatural to completely eliminate even one or two or three of those. It's impossible. You'd become a robot if the emotions weren't there.
-
Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
-
Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.
-
Friends share all things.
-
Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.
-
It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.
