Michel Gondry Quotes

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

Everything begins with an idea.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

We can invent only with memory.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.