Michel Gondry Quotes

I like to come up first of all with a free idea, thinking about and obviously understanding what is necessary for it to become a car.

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

I do not write, I build.

The process of building a part doesn't really stop.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

I just wondered how things were put together.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.

I loved to take things apart and put them back together. I loved the way things work.

My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories.

You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.

I put the hamburger on the assembly line.

To make a perfect t-shirt is hard - all you have is white cotton and fit. that's where experience comes in.

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

It's not that I'm using my life to put on screen or in my acting, it's that, when you're living in the world, you're exposed to stories, to people, to things that feel foreign and unfamiliar. And I'm curious about those things, me personally.

The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.

Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

Coming at the acting business as a technician, I really enjoy the process of working. I really enjoy being in a rehearsal room, starting a theatre piece for the first time. I really enjoy shooting in front of the crew, and I really love going on location. I think all that is just so exciting. So I've never really been drawn into the fame of being an actor, which in L.A., is part and parcel of the deal. I think for a lot of people, especially kids, it's hard to not get wrapped up in the world of the perks that the job brings.