Theatre Quotes by Michel Hazanavicius

7 Theatre quotes by Michel Hazanavicius

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To work with kids is difficult. To work with non-actors is difficult.

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Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. For example, Steve McQueen, if you cut the sound, you don't know what he's acting really. He gives to the lines, to the text, something very special, and he's very good. He was a great actor. But, to do…

Michel Hazanavicius

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

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People inside the theaters usually, not 100 percent but most of them, enjoy the movie. Usually they come with a small negative…

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There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we…

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When you write a script that you've felt in your soul for a long time, you can't ask the actors to go…

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You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask…

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

Michel Hazanavicius

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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…

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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

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

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

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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…

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

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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.

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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.…

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

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

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The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so…

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