Michel Gondry Quotes

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.'

It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

Not too much hard work, plenty of time to read, good society, etcetera.

today everything is commercialized--politics, religion, education, ideology, belief, the armed services. ...Everything has its price.

In America, even revolutions need a commercial sponsor.

I love to go home and do the chores and read.

'S.N.L.' has become what it was always trying to make fun of. It's become this big machine. I don't want to be plugged into a machine.

A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.

My idea of a night out is actually a night in - in pajamas, with a good book or playing 'Mario Kart.' It's not that glamorous.

That's just the way the world's going - everything has to be so instantly commercial that it kills anything that's a little bit underground instantly.