Michel Gondry Quotes

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.

I'm quite simple, really. I like to play and inhabit my character. I really like to inhabit the situation. It's the situation that intrigues me.

When I'm playing any of my characters, I totally go into the realm of the character. That's when I'm able to come up with the most creative stuff, and I believe that's what connects with the audience.

It's hard to turn my internal dialogue off from that character I become.

I internalise every role that I do and my creative process sees me immerse myself with the setting and the character that I have at hand.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

I sort of have the belief that you work being your character out while you're working on it, or that's been my experience so far. I throw myself into it 100% and try to live in that world, and then when it's over, just sort of be able to leave it behind.

My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.

I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

I know there are a lot of people who like to get very involved in their characters, but I, personally, find it too involved. I just like to do it as a job - and it's my job to make it look real.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.

I really admire actors who have time, because time is really the greatest luxury for an actor to live with a character, to develop a walk and a talk, or to listen to tape if you're playing a real character. But without time you're really just forced to make quick choices and move on and hope that the spaghetti sticks against the wall.

I think I had the good fortune to watch Sly the Artist [Sylvester Stallone]; to watch him in all arenas. As an actor, not many people get to see him turn that character on, they don't understand that he's playing a role.

It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind of actor. I think that's pretentious.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.