Michel Gondry Quotes

I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

Creativity is no big deal.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.