Michel Gondry Quotes

I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.

I always liked photography in film - I studied photography growing up. I like the medium of film; I like physically holding 35-mm film. I like the way it looks, the quality when it's projected. I like the way it frames real life.

I still shoot film. I like what film does, how it renders things, Also, when I'm shooting from the air, I want to have as large a negative as I can.

There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film - I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind.

Film still looks way better than digital.

There is a difference between film and digital. Because digital, you know, it's perfect and whatever. But with film, you get depth. You get subject.

Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.

I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.

we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin.

When I was 19, I picked up an old, tiny, automatic Yashica camera and I just started shooting. We didn't have iPhones back then, we didn't even have cell phones. I loved having a camera in my hand.

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.

truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.

Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

I consider every one of the Disney films that Bob & I worked on, to have been the luckiest break any two songwriters could have ever had. They all aimed at quality and timelessness. That's why they live over the years.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on film, such as Man Ray's portrait of the photographer Lee Miller.

This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.