146 Quotes by Michel Gondry

I think it’s a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

Orange is an underrated color, it’s the second most underrated color after yellow.

I don’t like the idea of competition – maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it’s better to be the one who loses?

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that’s bad.

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn’t get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

I’m not against the technology at all, I just don’t like to use it if it’s just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there’s stuff going on around them, because they can’t think too much about who they’re supposed to be.

I don’t want to compare myself to him – I don’t want people to see me as this great genius – but when I see Charlie Chaplin’s movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

I’m just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made – which is great, someday I hope I will do one. But I know the parameters when I got onto this project – I have to take care of everyone, make sure that they are all on board, and this process interests me.