At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.Michel GondryTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.
“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.”Michel GondryBe Nice
“I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.”Ben FosterShy
“I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.”Dylan O'Brien
“I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be.”Michel GondryCamera
“The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.”Michel GondryBoat
“I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.”Michel GondryMovies