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I watched a lot of silent movies. It's a very specific

I watched a lot of silent movies. It’s a very specific way of writing, which is more of a challenge than the directing. You have to describe images. It’s easier to shoot them.
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
Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I’ve seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.
Michel Hazanavicius
With silent films, you’re better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It’s this pact that leads to emotion being created.
Michel Hazanavicius
‘Avatar’ is a great movie. I really love it.
Michel Hazanavicius
To work with kids is difficult. To work with non-actors is difficult.
Michel Hazanavicius
My life is OK. I live in France. It’s a very cool country to make films.
Michel Hazanavicius
Here in France, what we love is Life. And all the pleasures that go with it.
Michel Hazanavicius
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
It’s a dream for a director, at least to try a studio movie.
Michel Hazanavicius
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
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
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
Silence is a universal language. It’s like music or painting.
Michel Hazanavicius
I made a movie in Morocco. I made a movie in Brazil. I’ve made commercials all over the world. Every set looks like another set.
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
You – as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don’t have to ask the actors to do it, or the dialogue.
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
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
Even if I make fun of him, I try to portray him as a human being. Sometimes because he’s the great Jean-Luc Godard, we see him as a concept.
Michel Hazanavicius
But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don’t think are doable.
Michel Hazanavicius
What I love is to create a show and for people to enjoy it and be aware that’s what it is: a show.
Michel Hazanavicius
In France, it’s really different the way you live. It’s a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a private thing.
Michel Hazanavicius
I’ve always been against the idea of dividing films between festival titles and popular movies. I think you can make films that are both.
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
When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.
Michel Hazanavicius
Maybe I’ve seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.
Michel Hazanavicius
When you write a script that you’ve felt in your soul for a long time, you can’t ask the actors to go through the same emotions. You have to do part of the job to make things as easy as possible for them.
Michel Hazanavicius
An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.
Michel Hazanavicius
French people are strange about America, I think.
Michel Hazanavicius