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Michel Gondry (French: [miʃɛl ɡɔ̃dʁi]; born 8 May 1963) is a French independent film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.

Creates, Garden, Ideas, People, Tell

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

Competition, Creativity, Somebody, Way

And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.

Guy, Micromanagement, My Time, Prefer, Stuff

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

Created, More Money, Music, Music Is, Pops, Repression

If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

Boston, Child, Children, Politics, See, World

I think some people feel that if you are going to have 3D, then you have to shoot in 3D, but they shoot 3D, so of course they're going to say 'my way of doing a film is better. ' I'm not telling anyone how they should do their film, so why should anyone tell me how I should do mine?

Film, People, Tell, Telling, Thinking, Way

When I was young, I would stay in my backyard and I would create roads and tunnels and systems. My uncle had a sawmill, and we had all sorts of pieces of wood, and we'd create a city. I truly believe that kids enjoy the box better than the car or the toy that's inside. So many times during Christmas, watching a kid, or even myself. . . There is excitement toward your toy, but then you put the toy on the side and something is created with the package.

Believe, Car, Kids, Package, Sawmill, Tunnels

I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.

Competition, Defeat, Like, People

In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.

Thinking, Actors, Way, Somebody, Universe

I'm always excited to work with actors.

Actors, Excited, Work

I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work and therefore do them, because I would have no doubt even though there was no solid foundation for this confidence. I don't think I would be a real inventor. But when I set out to do animation, which was my first step into film-making, I realised I could achieve this idea. I could take some elements, create a sort of clumsy invention, and make them work for the camera.

Confidence, Father, Idea, Real, Thinking, Though

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

Camera, Cameras, Create, Littles, Roll, Team

I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not.

Different, Film, Purpose, Screenings, Test, Thinking

Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's like watching a 'making of' within the story. You see the physical aspect, the construction of things.

Construction, Done, Kids, Liked, Stories, Story

I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.

Driving, Like, People, Risk, Sorry

I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.

Buttons, Hate, Making, Pushing, Villain

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

Aware, Hard, Poetic, Surrealist, Want

I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don't judge the director based on the trailer. Please.

Judging, Directors, Doe, Based, Judge, Movie

I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.

People, Week, Shows, Like, Survive

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

Competition, Ideas, Kids, Like, Maybe

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