Michel Gondry Quotes

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

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• There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Like
  • Radical
  • Critic

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Special
  • Gift

• The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Long
  • Future
  • Transform

• Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Myself

• I would never walk off any show.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Never
  • Show
  • Walk

• How dull it is to have people defining you.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • You
  • Dull

• When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Care
  • Body

• I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?

  

  Raekwon
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Learn

• I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a nice little show to do but you know that show was of the 80's, I don't think the audience mind set is in that direction any longer.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Children

• 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Death
  • Man
  • Trouble

• Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Friends
  • Liberty
  • Had

• I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Mom
  • Feel
  • Meant To Be

• I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Job
  • Friends

• Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reading
  • Taste
  • Others

• I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Time
  • Song
  • Day

• I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

  

  James Badge Dale
  • People
  • Work
  • Amazing

• The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Time
  • Writer
  • Gift

• Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Running

• Win, win, win. We will fight for everything.

  

  N'Golo Kante
  • Fight
  • Everything

• If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their teeth and claws out with pliers to keep them from hurting each other…you’d rush him to a psychiatrist. But you support that very behavior every time you buy meat, eggs, dairy or fur.

  

  Dan Piraro
  • Kids
  • Support
  • Hurt

• All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Way
  • Brain
  • Computer