Michel Gondry Quotes
There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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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.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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I don't focus on the scale. I focus on doing my job. The team staff and the program I've been working on, they've been touching on that, but I don't focus on the scale.
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Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late 20s or 30s and sometimes not even then. Or so it would appear. To me anyway. Don't you think the same?
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You could call me antisocial, I've called myself that sometimes too, but I just prefer to be alone, and that's nothing against you.
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.
