"It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived."

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Source : "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

Michel Gondry

#Jobs Quotes #Reality Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.”
“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”
“I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world. If I had any other skills that were more performative - if I could have been a musician or an actor - I'm sure I would have pursued that instead in order to get that instant feedback and to hear applause.”
“There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort”
“Through a lot of scientific and left-hemisphere thinking in the last 400 years, we've separated ourselves from nature, as if we were superior. We were looking at nature as a resource that we could manipulate. I think we're coming to a new understanding that it's just impossible. We are nature. We can't remove ourselves. We need to think more interdependently.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.”
“We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.”

Source : James Henry Breasted (1919). “The Origins of Civilization”
“God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.”

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