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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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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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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Tom and I have a similar sensibility and experience. You know his dad was from Kentucky where I set the film, and so was mine. That's where he died. His mom's really important in his life and so is mine,
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Sometimes we don't understand or we forget that there are no mistakes, only lessons.
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I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
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If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
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All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of menб that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.
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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.
