Michel Hazanavicius Quotes

When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don't focus on dialogue, only focus on what you're expressing.
Michel Hazanavicius

Love, Wife, Focus

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.
Michel Hazanavicius

Movie, Process, Audience

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.
Michel Hazanavicius

Boring, Obsession

Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.
Michel Hazanavicius

Tell, Story, Silent

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.
Michel Hazanavicius

Work, Idea, Desire

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.
Michel Hazanavicius

Great, Genius, Composer

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
Michel Hazanavicius

Director, Foreigner, Frenchman

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.
Michel Hazanavicius

Important, Whatever, Whether

But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.
Michel Hazanavicius

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.
Michel Hazanavicius

Express, Cinema, French

French people are strange about America, I think.
Michel Hazanavicius

America, Strange, French

Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.
Michel Hazanavicius

America, Hollywood, Planet

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie.
Michel Hazanavicius

Movies, Loved, Silent

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling.
Michel Hazanavicius

Movies, Same, Makes

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
Michel Hazanavicius

Nothing, Against, United

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.
Michel Hazanavicius

Love, Boring, Film

I make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.
Michel Hazanavicius

Decisions, Almost, Financial

I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
Michel Hazanavicius

American, Talking, Maybe

I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything.
Michel Hazanavicius

Computers, Movies, Everything

I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.
Michel Hazanavicius

Work, Good, Best

I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot.
Michel Hazanavicius

Good, Respect, Movies

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.
Michel Hazanavicius

Funny, Great, Freedom

I'm very happy in France making movies.
Michel Hazanavicius

Movies, Happy, Making

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.
Michel Hazanavicius

Try, Big, Problems

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying.
Michel Hazanavicius

Great, Saying, Through

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Nationality: French

Born: March 29, 1967

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