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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
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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
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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.
- Michel Hazanavicius
#Beginning
#Computers
#Digital
#Movies
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
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Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.
- Michel Hazanavicius
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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.
- Michel Hazanavicius
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I make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.
- Michel Hazanavicius
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#Financial
#Make
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
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#Cinema
#Film
#Love
#Silent
Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.
- Michel Hazanavicius
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#Hollywood
#More
#Planet
#Than
To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.
- Michel Hazanavicius
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#Me
#Process
#Recognition
The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.
- Michel Hazanavicius
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#Cinema
#Feelings
#Story
#Way
It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of.
- Michel Hazanavicius
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#Language
#Recognition
#Unique
My life is OK. I live in France. It's a very cool country to make films.
- Michel Hazanavicius
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#Country
#Life
#Live
#My Life
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
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#Awards
#Making
#Point
#Winning
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
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#Fun
#Language
#Me
#Movies
I only have one obsession - not to be boring.
- Michel Hazanavicius
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#Obsession
#Only
Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.
- Michel Hazanavicius
#Bernard
#Composer
#Genius
#Great
Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.
- Michel Hazanavicius
#Language
#Like
#Music
#Painting
#Silence
Anne Wiazemsky wrote two books about her life with Jean-Luc Godard between 1966 and 1969. And I first read the second one, which is about the fall of their love story and their marriage. I immediately thought there was a movie to make with this book because it was so funny, and I thought the love story was very, very touching.
- Michel Hazanavicius
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#Funny
#Life
#Love
#Marriage
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
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