I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.
Michel GondryI don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.
Michel GondryThe problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.
Michel GondrySometimes, when people use too much blue screen in movies, the actors don't look credible, because they have their own opinion of what the thing will look like, and each person has a different opinion.
Michel GondryPop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
Michel GondryI'm going to work with Dan Clowes. After Charlie Kaufman, it's hard to fill up the gap. It's hard to find somebody who... A lot of writers, I can clearly see the desire of succeeding before the desire of expressing themselves. Sometimes people get upset when you want to be different. You were talking about "whimsical," which is a nice word. But sometimes they use the word "quirky" in the pejorative sense. I get frustrated, because they feel like I'm doing whatever I want, and there is no ground, and I don't really care. They feel it's cynical. But I don't think I have any cynicism in me.
Michel Gondry