I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. … - Michel Gondry

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There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

Michel Gondry

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.

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

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

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