Michel Gondry Quotes

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

The struggle of making a film for any studio is the fact that the producers and the studio have an idea of what the movie should be, but that is especially the case when the director is being replaced three weeks before principal photography. The challenge for me was to make sure that was my version of 'The Wolfman.' And I've done that. I think.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

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.

We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

To make a movie is very stressful, especially when you work with your father. You want to think the movie is good. Even when I don't work with my father, I want it to be good.

You can't direct without a good crew.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

As producers, we choose who to work with and what films to get involved with. There's no rule, but it has to come from an honest place. It has to come from a necessity.

We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.

Hollywood is a double feeling. Love and hate. With a talented film director, I cannot resist. They are such charming and intelligent people. But each time, it is very difficult to deal with other people. I have to satisfy other people. The director or the producer. Not me. I have to satisfy myself. But then I have to deliver my music.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

I was in 'Fiesta,' but only because Aaliyah said she wanted me to do it that way.

I'm strong-willed, but that doesn't mean I can't work with people if we're all in the mission of trying to make a good movie.

I've produced two docs for Cameron Crowe, and I've always loved him as a filmmaker.

Aamir Khan in a sense, was my first teacher for filmmaking. He used to answer my doubts on the sets of 'Joh Jeeta Wahi Sikander.'

So, yes, I wrote a script called 'Ben Is Back' that I got to make with a bunch of remarkable artists and craftspeople.

There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

I love the team aspect of filmmaking.

The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.

It was really fun to work on 'The Predator.'

If your No. 1 priority isn't winning, and people can tell? That's the battle. Now there's a problem between people, because that guy's No. 1 priority is winning, and that guy's isn't.