Quotes by Michel Hazanavicius

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.

Creating

Needs

Stories

All over the world there are a lot of distributors that have the equipment for 3D but they don’t have the movies really. The only source of 3D movies is Hollywood. Only Hollywood sends the 3D movies. So it was an option.

Hollywood

Source

World

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

Desire

Ideas

Way

At the very beginning, it’s a desire and that’s not the same thing at all, because when you have the desire to do something, all the work you can do is a positive thing. It’s not something that you calculate. An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. The immersion, it’s classical, I watched a lot of movies.

Desire

Ideas

Way

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

Composer

Genius

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.

Directors

Important

Thinking

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

People

Thinking

Trying

Finally, you’re right about one point, your entire way of thinking is predicted by what you’re immersed in so you know you won’t make a bad decision. You can make a bad decision but it’s still in the good sphere normally if you work well. You’re prepared to face a crew who wants to know everything and poses a hundred questions a minute, because you know you have good reflexes and can respond very quickly.

Decision

Thinking

Way

First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt that people needed justification. Why are you doing a silent movie? Is it just for your own pleasure? I felt it was not enough for them so I realized I have to choose the subject that will make things easier for them and to tell the story of a silent actor makes sense for doing a silent movie.

Desire

People

Talking

French cinema audiences usually don’t express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

Audience

Cinema

Satisfaction

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Actresses

Almost Perfect

America

Art

Artist

Aspect

Audience

Balance

Beautiful

Believe

Black And White

Boring

Branches

Brother

Care

Cinema

Composer

Confused

Connections

Country

Creating

Cutting

Decision

Desire

Differences

Directors

Dream

Editing

Expression

Eye

Feelings

Financial

Focus

France

French Movies

Frenchmen

Fun

Genius

Giving

Hollywood

Hollywood Movies

Home

I Love You

Ideas

Important

Jobs

Kids

Kind

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Quotes by Michel Hazanavicius

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.

All over the world there are a lot of distributors that have the equipment for 3D but they don’t have the movies really. The only source of 3D movies is Hollywood. Only Hollywood sends the 3D movies. So it was an option.

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

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

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.

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

French cinema audiences usually don’t express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

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