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For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.


Jean-Michel Jarre

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MICHEL FABER Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find...
MICHEL ONFRAY All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that...
MICHEL GONDRY My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his pro...
MICHEL FABER I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The mo...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it&#...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from m...
MICHEL FABER Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that sa...
MICHEL FABER I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - ...
MICHEL FABER We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-wo...
MICHEL FOUCAULT I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Bro...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director....
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS There seems to be a new Palestinian and Israeli political reality, despite the many complications an...
MICHEL SABBAH A new Israeli and Palestinian political landscape is taking shape.
MICHEL SABBAH