Michel Gondry Quotes

Live a life less ordinary.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood.

I had a nice life. It had its challenges like anybody's life, I guess.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.

I think everyone has been different once in their life.

I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself.

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.

I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.

My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it's still very surreal to me.

Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

I do not believe that the real life of this nation is to be found either in great luxury hotels and the petty gossip of so-called fashionable suburbs, or in the officialdom of the organized masses. It is to be found in the homes of people who are nameless and unadvertised, and who, whatever their individual religious conviction or dogma, see in their children their greatest contribution to the immortality of their race.

The people I always loved listening to had a little bit of dirt under their fingernails because they had done some living and had these stories to talk about.