Michel Gondry Quotes

I love being part of cinema and I don't see myself doing anything else.

I made tons of stop motion films with my friends in my neighborhood.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things. For me, I just love to work and I love movies.

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

I made my first movie when I was five.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

'Talullah' is a movie I'm really proud of. Sian Heder is the director/writer, and I think she's extraordinarily talented. I think it was a beautiful story.

I dream about doing a film about once a week.

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.