Make Quotes by Michel Hazanavicius

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

— Michel Hazanavicius

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…

— 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 make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.

— Michel Hazanavicius

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

— 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…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

— 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…

— Michel Hazanavicius

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

I always try to make popular films. Even in black-and-white and silent.

— Michel Hazanavicius

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

— Michel Hazanavicius

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