Michel Hazanavicius Quotes

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• 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, Actors, Recognition

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• 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

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  Expression, Sound, Silent

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• 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.

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  Trying, Stories, Actors

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• The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so it's really graphic and visual. And the French were something else.

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  Artist, Cinema, Movement

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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

  Michel Hazanavicius

  United States, Unusual, Frenchmen

  "The Artist: the silent film they said no one wanted to see". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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• 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

  I Love You, Wife, Focus

  "[Cannes Interview] 'The Artist' Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.

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• 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

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  Thinking, Phones, Way

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• I guess George Clooney would be a wonderful silent actor, and Leonardo DiCaprio is such a wonderful actor he certainly could do it.

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  Would Be, Actors, Wonderful

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• 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

  Almost Perfect, Actors, Sometimes

  "Cannes Interview: ‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Smart, Black And White, Artist

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• 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

  Sound, Stories, Actors

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• I looked at a lot of photos from Hollywood in the '20s, photographs of silent movies being filmed all over the world which are very specific and very evocative. Berenice, the lead actress, is my wife. She really followed the same path with me.

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  Wife, Actresses, Hollywood

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance

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  Art, Struggle, Balance

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• I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Obsession, Boring

  "The Artist: the silent film they said no one wanted to see". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Hollywood, French Movies, Hollywood Movies

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• Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning actually, the first person I had to convince was myself really because there's a self-censorship. When everybody says 'we don't do silent movies anymore,' you agree with everybody, and you say 'yeah, you're right.' It was a fantasy.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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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

  Believe, Thinking, Stories

  "Cannes Interview: ‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.

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• 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

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  Fun, Feelings, Connections

  "Cannes Interview: ‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.

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• 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

  Cinema, Branches, Sacred

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Two, Want, Kind

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Talking, Hollywood

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• 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

  Brother, Directors, Care

  "Cannes Interview: ‘The Artist’ Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.

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

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  America, Hollywood, Planets

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• Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Genius, Composer

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

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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