Michel Gondry Quotes

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

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• There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Past
  • Never

• I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Relationships

• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Home
  • Together

• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • High
  • Going
  • Rises

• When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Same

• No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Experience
  • Black
  • Interesting

• I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • World
  • Best
  • Flying

• Hope is the raw material of losers.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Hope
  • Material
  • Losers

• It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Talk

• Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Homosexuality

• I love love stories, no matter how dark.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Stories

• I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Home

• Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Deserve
  • Ways
  • Agree

• I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Fall
  • Expect

• Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Freedom

• The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Freedom
  • Evolution
  • Function

• The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• Theatre has always been better disposed to colourblind casting than telly or film. Given that most television is contemporary, and it reaches 56 million people, I am disappointed there still isn't more representation.

  

  Sanjeev Bhaskar
  • People
  • Film
  • Theatre

• Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.

  

  Sean Bean
  • Book
  • Film
  • Moon

• The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Film
  • Block
  • Constructs