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Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry (born May 8, 1963) is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène.

I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.

Tags: Children, Die, Before

Michel Gondry

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

Tags: Art, Effort, Flowers

Michel Gondry

Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.

Tags: Time, Myself, Successful

Michel Gondry

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

Tags: Beauty, Smart, Thinking

Michel Gondry

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

Tags: Time, Same, Sometimes

Michel Gondry

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

Tags: Time, Past, Long

Michel Gondry

I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times.

Tags: May, Him, Play

Michel Gondry

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.

Tags: Government, Country, Between

Michel Gondry

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

Tags: Girl, Character, Little

Michel Gondry