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Michel Gondry Quotes

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 8, 1963

Topics

Competition Losing Better Kid Idea

Katrina silenced me for two years. I wrote a 12-page essay on my experience in Katrina, and that's it. I didn't write anything for, like, two, two and a half years after Katrina hit because it was so traumatic.

Experience Me Write Two Anything

For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy.

Great Policy Interest Smartest Made

'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.

Stanley Hauerwas

War Think Reality Well Avoid Tried

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Sophie Swetchine

Vanity Dignity Enemy Our Constant

When I would go into Madison Square Garden, I wasn't the most popular guy. Madison Square Garden, there's 16,000 Puerto Ricans with knives and great radios and stuff.

Great Garden Go Square Guy Stuff

There's always been a market for female leads and superheroes.

Monique Ganderton

Always Market Been Female Leads

Making 'The Avengers' was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.

Home People Me Friends Camera Know

As a teenager, I would wear Clarks, corduroy pants and striped shirts, and I loved it.

Loved Pants Wear Shirts Would

The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

Family Education Good Health People

If you're going to write time travel stories, you have to sort of figure out how does time travel work in this particular universe that I'm dealing with.

Work Time Travel Universe You Write

I was such a weird kid. The really hardcore stuff like Venom - I was totally aware of them, and I listened to some of it - but they actually frightened me.

Me Weird Kid Aware Like Stuff

I've always been crazy for the American songbook.

Crazy American Always Been Songbook

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