"I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony."

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Source : "How Michel Gondry became cinema's most versatile director" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

Michel Gondry

#Nice Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“I wrote some weird magical realism stories that are probably on some hard drive somewhere, and if I ever uncover that hard drive, I'll burn it. I tried to do a little bit of writing while I was in Iraq, but it wasn't the really greatest space for creative production.”
“Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.”
“The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.”
“If friends are taking more from you than they're giving, it doesn't matter if they are in the throes of addiction. It does not matter if they are suicidal. It does not matter if they were nice to you when you were kids. It doesn't matter if you've told them things you've never told anybody else and only they can relate. If this person is draining you, this person is not right for you.”
“No day is without its innocent hope.”
“Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone else!”
“The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.”
“Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.”

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