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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's…

— Michel Hazanavicius

With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

— Michel Hazanavicius

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.

— Michel Hazanavicius

Finally, you're right about one point, your entire way of thinking is predicted by what you're immersed in so you know you…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I made a movie in Morocco. I made a movie in Brazil. I've made commercials all over the world. Every set looks…

— Michel Hazanavicius

They said 'if you have a 3D movie, we'll buy it' because they want it. For maybe two weeks I really thought…

— Michel Hazanavicius

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

— Michel Hazanavicius

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change…

— Michel Hazanavicius

Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. For…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I'm very happy in France making movies.

— Michel Hazanavicius

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and…

— Michel Hazanavicius