Michel Gondry Quotes

I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.

I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see oneself as being now what one was and one can see oneself as being absolutely different from what one was. It's a trick of thought.

The way that I live is in between the dual experiences of the tragedy mask and the comedy mask. I feel that I write best and think best in between those two masks.

One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings.

If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude."

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

Everybody is naughty, everybody is good.

I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.

I think we just have to become more consistent.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.

Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the performance of one particular act is alone (considered) work? To be still is to be always engaged in work. To be silent is to be always talking.

I think I've been very consistent in my values.

Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.

I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine