Quotes By Michel Gondry

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

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.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

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.

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