{"id":5945,"date":"2014-09-21T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2014-09-21T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T14:14:10","slug":"repostmichel-gondry-interview-the-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/21\/repostmichel-gondry-interview-the-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Michel Gondry Interview &#124; The Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director of one of my all time faves : Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nHow do you get your head free from work when you\u2019re finished?<br \/>\nJust hanging out with my son is incredible, so when I have some time off I try to catch up on my duties as a father. He lives with me and I love spending my time with him. Once a week or so we go to see a movie together. When I do things with my son I realize that I am actually not working.<br \/>\nNevertheless you go and see movies with him. Can you step back from being a director and simply enjoy a movie?<br \/>\nYes I can enjoy it. But it\u2019s true it is a very complex problem. It is different because my son has a less critical approach to movies than me. He enjoys going to see a movie as part of the audience. Sometimes I know I won\u2019t like the movie we are going to see, but he gets upset with me and tells me to just enjoy going to the movies. So sometimes I don\u2019t tell him my opinion, but on the other hand sometimes we have the same taste. It\u2019s funny, when he wants to piss me off he tells me I am a bad director and that Quentin Tarantino is much better than me. I hate it when he says that!<br \/>\nBecause of your ego or because you don\u2019t like Tarantino?<br \/>\nHe forced me to go see Kill Bill Vol. 2 and I walked out of it, just like every time I go and see a movie by Quentin, besides Pulp Fiction \u2013 I finished that one. But all the others are too mean for me. I mean, he is a brilliant director, much more skilled than me. You see great performances, great images. Everything is great, only the message is dangerous. It\u2019s all revenge and vengeance, about being mean and cynical. I would almost say that these movies are not made for my son, but it is exa<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/the-talks.com\/interviews\/michel-gondry\/\">Michel Gondry Interview | The Talks<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of one of my all time faves : Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. &nbsp; How do you get your head free from work when you\u2019re finished? Just hanging out with my son is incredible, so when I have some time off I try to catch up on my duties as a father. He &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/21\/repostmichel-gondry-interview-the-talks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Michel Gondry Interview &#124; The Talks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[941,1395],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-michel-gondry","tag-the-talks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}