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


When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural. - Michel Hazanavicius


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


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


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


There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance. - Michel Hazanavicius


The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times. - Michel Hazanavicius


Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies. - Michel Hazanavicius


Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great. - Michel Hazanavicius


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