Quotes from Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

There's a feeling of despair for some, but that's not what we wanted. Because the whole movie is without dialogue, it's more a question than an answer. We wanted to make a question mark so people could project what they wanted onto 'Electroma' - some people see it as sad, some as happy. Everyone is different.

The big difference with 'Random Access Memories' and maybe 'Tron' is that we decided to share the experience of making music with a bigger team.

When we have a good work dynamic we don't need to ask too many questions of each other.

The robots are far more trippy and opening your imagination than my face or Thomas' face, and the way we live, which is not even a crazy celebrity lifestyle.

We are not really skilled musicians. I mean, I can play a little bit of guitar. Thomas can play piano.

Thriller' reshaped sound. It reshaped everything.

Every album we've done is tightly linked with our lives.

Going to the blackboard at school was the worst torture.

We're always looking for ground where we can experiment, where we can do something that's relevant but that hasn't been done before. Can it be in recorded music? Can it be in the field of a tour? These can take any kind of forms.

There's this idea that robots are not human, so they are cold,' he said. 'But it's not really the case. They can be anything you want them to be.

The star system, the idol, the cult of personality is not the only way to be in entertainment.

The 'Discovery' album is really complex and really rich and really full of instruments, different parts and stuff.

We've never been, really, singers or performers. We are a little bit but we are not like Mick Jagger or Keith Richards or anyone like that.

I don't know EDM artists or the albums. At first I thought it was all just one guy, some DJ called EDM.

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we wanted to hear.

EDM is energy only. It lacks depth.

Coming from 'Homework,' which was a really minimal album, 'Discovery' was much more difficult to perform on stage.

Looking at robots is not like looking at an idol. It's not a human being, so it's more like a mirror - the energy people send to the stage bounces back and everybody has a good time together rather than focusing on us.

The magic - we can try to capture the magic - the music that comes out of the speakers. That sparkle of magic that we can get sometimes is just what we are looking for and if it works while we're in the studio the two of us, then we think that maybe we can share it with an audience. And it's been the case from the beginning.

I don't know if robots have personalities, but I think maybe we are special robots that are maybe human after all. We try to be a little bit human. Maybe we've managed to put a little bit of emotion.

With American blockbuster cinema, everything is very fast, there's a lot of action and narration.

It's good for people not to have a narrow mind. Good music is good music.

In France, disco was an artistic progression that might not have had the same social stakes. Also, the language barriers - like with hip-hop, in France, the focus is more on the personality, of the flow of the music, rather than the lyrics themselves.

We're not idols onstage. We're not the Rolling Stones.