Michel Gondry Quotations

You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.

I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas [and] that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're called Stanley Kubrick and you do an independent movie for like $200 million.

I love 3D a lot, I have a great interest in 3D, so if I am given the tools to do a project with 3D, it's a dream for me.

In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.

When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.

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?

You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a little bit limiting. With film, you have a lot more subtly, like with highlights and color. In terms of sharpness they (both formats) are very close; but in terms of nuance, of color and contrast, film is far superior.

Orange is an underrated color, it's the second most underrated color after yellow.

I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.