Michel Gondry Quotes

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn’t pleasant. I always think: ‘Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?’ But I have to remember the bigger picture.

The problem is, with a lot of children’s films, they are very commercial.

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you’d see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.