Here in France, what we love is Life. And all the pleasures that go with it. — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
What I love is to create a show and for people to enjoy it and be aware that's what it is: a… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
Anne Wiazemsky wrote two books about her life with Jean-Luc Godard between 1966 and 1969. And I first read the second one,… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States. — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
Usually, when you do a period movie, you just recreate what you are shooting. You don't recreate the way you shoot it. I think I did the same thing here as I did in the OSS 117 movies. I recreated the way to shoot that period, because to me, like what I was saying about the Steadicam, there's no sense… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
I make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects. — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
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… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life. — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
It's not my job. The Weinstein company, it's their job to convince people. My job was to make the movie. That's what I did.… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I always try to make popular films. Even in black-and-white and silent. — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
