Michel Gondry Quotes
My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.
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When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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We can't legislate human nature.
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I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.
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And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.
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I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'
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I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.
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My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.
