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Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#clerk #faculty #favourite #frustration #get

Sometimes it's interesting to see something that you're not used to seeing, which is the main ingredient of life, and it's removed from the usual entertainment. I think it's important to give the opportunity to people to witness the life of somebody who was not public. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#give #i #i think #important #ingredient

Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#aware #committee #documents #formal #i

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#fights #i #like #petty #politician

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. ↗

— Herman Melville

#brutes #divinity #even #exempt #forever

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#block #build #construct #doing #film

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#awards #glorify #just #most #mtv

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#commercial #films #lot #problem #very

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#original #people #resist #sometimes #very

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#direct #film #find #i #i think