--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: I'm just saying to everyone. The director…" description: "\"I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's n..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/michel-gondry-6811_direct_i-m-just-saying-to-everyone-the-director_3220863.jpg" --- # I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct… ![“I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don't judge the director based on the trailer. Please.” quote by Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/michel-gondry-6811_direct_i-m-just-saying-to-everyone-the-director_3220863.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/michel-gondry-6811_direct_i-m-just-saying-to-everyone-the-director_3220863.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/michel-gondry-6811_direct_i-m-just-saying-to-everyone-the-director_3220863.jpg) > “I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don't judge the director based on the trailer. Please.” [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. A trailer is a cut version of a film and should not be judged as the director’s full work. **In simple terms:** Trailers are edited snippets, not the whole film. Key Takeaway Judge the director by the film, not the trailer. Themes media criticism film perception artistic intent Mood critical informative Type analytical educational When to use this quote - film reviews - marketing analysis - audience expectations - director interviews - media literacy Key Concepts media studies cinema theory Questions to Reflect On - How do you differentiate between marketing and artistic expression? - What criteria should you use to evaluate a director’s work? A Different Perspective Trailers may misrepresent artistic vision, leading to unfair judgments. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet [Directors](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/directors/) [Film](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/film/) [Moments](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moments/) [Movie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/movie/) [Trailers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trailers/) ## Related quotes > [I have regretted saying no' to a director who wanted to bank on my dancing skills for an amazing role in the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shamna-kasim/i-have-regretted-saying-no-to-a-director-who-wanted-to-bank-on-my/) [Shamna Kasim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shamna-kasim/) > [I'm a huge fan of the director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and his work, and I knew he was going to be an amazing actor's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-bardem/i-m-a-huge-fan-of-the-director-alejandro-gonz-lez-i-rritu-and-his/) [Javier Bardem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-bardem/) > [I aspire to be able to appreciate and review a director based on their accomplishments and based on who they are and what they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jodie-foster/i-aspire-to-be-able-to-appreciate-and-review-a-director-based-on/) [Jodie Foster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jodie-foster/) > [I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/holly-hunter/i-don-t-make-decisions-just-on-the-character-i-m-supposed-to-play/) [Holly Hunter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/holly-hunter/) > [If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/if-you-re-not-grown-up-enough-to-understand-that-a-trailer-is-not/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijay-sethupathi/i-surrender-to-my-directors-i-do-that-because-i-respect-them/) [Vijay Sethupathi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijay-sethupathi/) > [When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiran-rao/when-i-went-to-jamia-i-thought-i-wanted-to-be-a-cinematographer-or/) [Kiran Rao](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiran-rao/) > [Matching character and actor is what a good director does.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruno-dumont/matching-character-and-actor-is-what-a-good-director-does/) [Bruno Dumont](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruno-dumont/) > [To be a great director, what does it mean exactly? It's not only about a great director, but also about being able to rely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabelle-huppert/to-be-a-great-director-what-does-it-mean-exactly-it-s-not-only-about/) [Isabelle Huppert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabelle-huppert/) > [Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-wyler/everything-a-director-does-must-help-the-story-and-the-performances/) [William Wyler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-wyler/) > [The best directing style is the one that lets me do whatever I want. Seriously though, I like to be challenged and I like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zach-gilford/the-best-directing-style-is-the-one-that-lets-me-do-whatever-i-want/) [Zach Gilford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zach-gilford/) > [Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-brooks/listen-there-are-some-movies-that-are-set-in-stone-and-the-writer-or/) [Albert Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-brooks/) > [Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lindsay-abaire/film-is-mostly-a-visual-medium-and-so-the-director-has-much-more/) [David Lindsay-Abaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lindsay-abaire/) > [As a director who does not like to write, I am always looking for scripts that I can contribute to through directing. I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jen-mcgowan/as-a-director-who-does-not-like-to-write-i-am-always-looking-for/) Jen McGowan > [After all these years, I'm starting to learn what a good director does, and I know what a good one does with actors: help…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-geraghty/after-all-these-years-i-m-starting-to-learn-what-a-good-director-does/) Brian Geraghty ## More by Michel Gondry > [I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-learned-to-drive-when-i-was-35-i-m-driving-like-an-old-lady-and/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [I'm just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made - which is great, someday I hope I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-m-just-thinking-of-2001-which-i-think-is-the-most-expensive/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-try-to-learn-from-both-from-features-and-documentaries-in-both/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-m-attracted-to-working-with-comedians-because-they-don-t-have-that/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/there-is-an-amount-of-abstraction-in-my-movies-and-sometimes-they-don/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-shoot-people-in-a-way-that-makes-the-audience-feel-equal-to-them/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/in-my-opinion-it-s-more-interesting-to-see-magic-happening-in-a-world/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/all-these-gadgets-the-phone-and-the-computer-they-expose-the-inside/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/michael-jackson-will-always-be-my-favorite-pop-musician-he-was-for/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [I find it particularly shocking that people work all week long, and then on the weekend they give their money to another big corporation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-find-it-particularly-shocking-that-people-work-all-week-long-and/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [ I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas \[and\] that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're called Stanley… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-like-collaboration-i-like-to-incorporate-other-people-s-ideas-and/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [If people don't like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/if-people-don-t-like-the-trailer-then-blame-it-on-the-people-who-made/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-like-actors-who-just-are-who-they-are-with-a-little-bit-of/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-had-a-lot-of-encouragement-and-tolerance-from-my-parents-but-i-also/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) > [When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/when-people-are-very-original-sometimes-they-are-original-as-a-way-to/) [Michel Gondry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) [Explore all 97 Michel Gondry quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/) ## More Direct quotes > [One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/one-of-the-deepest-and-strangest-of-all-human-moods-is-the-mood-which/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ford/anybody-can-direct-a-picture-once-they-know-the-fundamentals/) [John Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ford/) > [The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-smith-stevens/the-method-of-magnitude-estimation-provided-a-direct-measure-of/) Stanley Smith Stevens > [A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-symons/a-place-has-almost-the-shyness-of-a-person-with-strangers-and-its/) [Arthur Symons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-symons/) > [The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/the-prediction-of-nuclear-winter-is-drawn-not-of-course-from-any/) [Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/) > [I'm currently trying to direct my own material.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-skerritt/i-m-currently-trying-to-direct-my-own-material/) [Tom Skerritt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-skerritt/) > [By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/talib-kweli/by-the-time-you-get-into-other-kinds-of-music-r-b-country-or-whatever/) [Talib Kweli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/talib-kweli/) > [There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-parker/there-s-little-in-taking-or-giving-there-s-little-in-water-or-wine/) [Dorothy Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-parker/) > [If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-w-bush/if-you-take-all-the-food-aid-america-is-by-far-the-most-generous/) [George W. Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-w-bush/) > [I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danny-trejo/i-understand-the-formula-that-producers-hire-directors-and-directors/) [Danny Trejo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danny-trejo/) > [They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marsden-hartley/they-are-the-gateway-for-our-modern-esthetic-development-the-prophets/) [Marsden Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marsden-hartley/) > [I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-maclaine/i-m-too-direct-and-too-unsparingly-impatient/) [Shirley MacLaine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-maclaine/) > [Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-brooks/steven-spielberg-seems-to-have-wanted-to-be-a-director-from-13-he-put/) [Albert Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-brooks/) > [This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/this-separation-was-absolute-in-our-original-republic-but-the-sky/) [Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/) > [Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-s-a-corey/violence-is-what-people-do-when-they-run-out-of-good-ideas-it-s/) [James S.A. Corey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-s-a-corey/) Browse all 3,391 Direct quotes ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don't judge the director based on the trailer. Please.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michel Gondry" }, "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-m-just-saying-to-everyone-the-director-does-not-direct-the-trailer/", "about": { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Direct" }, "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-m-just-saying-to-everyone-the-director-does-not-direct-the-trailer/#quotation", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/michel-gondry-6811_direct_i-m-just-saying-to-everyone-the-director_3220863.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/michel-gondry-6811_direct_i-m-just-saying-to-everyone-the-director_3220863.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f94/michel-gondry-6811_direct_i-m-just-saying-to-everyone-the-director_3220863.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so…” — Michel Gondry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Michel Gondry", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-gondry/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "I'm just saying to everyone. The...", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-m-just-saying-to-everyone-the-director-does-not-direct-the-trailer/" } ], "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-gondry/i-m-just-saying-to-everyone-the-director-does-not-direct-the-trailer/#breadcrumb" }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```