I don’t like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see ‘I Am Legend’ with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you’ve seen many times.

— Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry Quotes

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.

— Michel Gondry

I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.

— Michel Gondry

In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.

— Michel Gondry

I like actors who don’t have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.

— Michel Gondry

The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren’t good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.

— Michel Gondry

If people don’t like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.

— Michel Gondry

And I’m not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.

— Michel Gondry

The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life.

— Michel Gondry

I don’t like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.

— Michel Gondry

I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not.

— Michel Gondry

I don’t like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.

— Michel Gondry

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

— Michel Gondry

I think some people feel that if you are going to have 3D, then you have to shoot in 3D, but they shoot 3D, so of course they’re going to say ‘my way of doing a film is better.’ I’m not telling anyone how they should do their film, so why should anyone tell me how I should do mine?

— Michel Gondry

When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.

— Michel Gondry

In the ’90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.

— Michel Gondry

I love 3D a lot, I have a great interest in 3D, so if I am given the tools to do a project with 3D, it’s a dream for me.

— Michel Gondry

The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.

— Michel Gondry

Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I’m confused about.

— Michel Gondry

I was sort of lazy at school, but I realize I still have something to bring to the subject which is comforting. I feel I am not as stupid as I thought I was.

— Michel Gondry

You can’t feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don’t need the scene.

— Michel Gondry
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