Michel Hazanavicius Quotes
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“When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.”
— Michel Hazanavicius —
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
— Michel Hazanavicius
I only have one obsession - not to be boring.
— Michel Hazanavicius
— Michel Hazanavicius
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
“French people are strange about America, I think.”
— Michel Hazanavicius
But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.
— Michel Hazanavicius
This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.
— Michel Hazanavicius
“When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.”
— Michel Hazanavicius
“Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.”
— Michel Hazanavicius
“An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.”
— Michel Hazanavicius
When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor.
— Michel Hazanavicius
“French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.”
— Michel Hazanavicius
Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.
— Michel Hazanavicius
“I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.”
— Michel Hazanavicius
“I make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.”
— Michel Hazanavicius
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
“I'm very happy in France making movies.”
— Michel Hazanavicius
Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.
— Michel Hazanavicius
Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen.
— Michel Hazanavicius
— Michel Hazanavicius
— Michel Hazanavicius
— Michel Hazanavicius
— Michel Hazanavicius
— Michel Hazanavicius
I went to Hollywood. I put the action in Hollywood. I watched a lot of movies, maybe 100 or something close to that. I have tons of DVDs now at home. I don't know what to do with them because they're not useful anymore. My kids never watched them. I read a lot of autobiographies, listened to a lot of music by classical era composers like Franz Waxman, Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman and Leonard Bernstein. I listened to only that kind of music the entire time I was writing, even at home.
— Michel Hazanavicius
They said 'if you have a 3D movie, we'll buy it' because they want it. For maybe two weeks I really thought of a silent, black and white 3D movie and I thought it could be great. I imagined it as a very special image, a very new image, but fortunately, I didn't have to do it.
— Michel Hazanavicius
It's not my job. The Weinstein company, it's their job to convince people. My job was to make the movie. That's what I did. I know what we did in France was to have the maximum screenings just to let people talk about the movie and say they enjoyed the movie.
— Michel Hazanavicius
There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we want them to come inside the theater. And, it's not the same.
— Michel Hazanavicius
I think Hollywood is cleverer than you think. I'm not sure they will do it. I don't think so, but maybe I'm wrong. When we were doing the preparation of the movie, we didn't have all the money so we were looking for all the solutions possible, and 3D was one option.
— Michel Hazanavicius
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