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 so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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For Daredevil I think Sam Wortington could be very great and intense for this character. For the vilain it's depênd of the story.
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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
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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.
