When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a text brings you back to… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
Some people probably think me telling Godard's story is blasphemy. My friends were worried. But he's not my hero or my god.… — 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
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… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
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… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
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
