--- title: "Best Michel Hazanavicius Sayings" description: "Michel Hazanavicius is a French film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. He is best known for his 2011 film, The Artist, that won the Best Pic..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-michel-hazanavicius-7804.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Michel Hazanavicius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-michel-hazanavicius-7804.jpg) # Michel Hazanavicius (1967) Film Producer France **87** quotes in **470** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Michel Hazanavicius is a film producer from France, best known for *Once upon a Time in Hollywood*. ## Quick Facts About Michel Hazanavicius Born March 29, 1967 Nationality France Profession Film Producer Notable works Once upon a Time in Hollywood Spouse Bérénice Bejo ## About Michel Hazanavicius Michel Hazanavicius is a French film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. He is best known for his 2011 film, The Artist, that won the Best Picture and the Best Director at the 84th Academy Awards. He also directed spy film parodies OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) and OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009). ## Awards & Honors César Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Director BAFTA Award for Best Direction Directors Guild of America Award René Clair Award Knight of the Legion of Honour Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Best Director François Morellet Prize ## Quotes by Michel Hazanavicius · Page 3 > [I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-hazanavicius/i-always-loved-silent-movies-i-was-not-a-specialist-but-i-loved-them-2/) [Michel Hazanavicius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-hazanavicius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43f/michel-hazanavicius-7804_devices_i-always-loved-silent-movies-i-was-not-a_2143614.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-hazanavicius/i-think-there-s-something-in-common-with-the-oss-117-movies-the-big/) [Michel Hazanavicius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-hazanavicius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6d/michel-hazanavicius-7804_bigs_i-think-there-s-something-in-common-with_370835.jpg) > [All over the world there are a lot of distributors that have the equipment for 3D but they don't have the movies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-hazanavicius/all-over-the-world-there-are-a-lot-of-distributors-that-have-the/) [Michel Hazanavicius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-hazanavicius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d80/michel-hazanavicius-7804_distributors_all-over-the-world-there-are-a-lot-of-di_2771386.jpg) > [There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-hazanavicius/there-are-two-kinds-of-audiences-there-s-the-ones-who-were-in-the/) [Michel Hazanavicius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-hazanavicius/) [Audience](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/audience/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f91/michel-hazanavicius-7804_audience_there-are-two-kinds-of-audiences-there-s_2150479.png) > [The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-hazanavicius/the-germans-were-much-more-graphical-the-expressionism-is-much-more/) [Michel Hazanavicius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-hazanavicius/) [Architecture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/architecture/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fa/michel-hazanavicius-7804_architecture_the-germans-were-much-more-graphical-the_365487.png) > [When you write a script that you've felt in your soul for a long time, you can't ask the actors to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-hazanavicius/when-you-write-a-script-that-you-ve-felt-in-your-soul-for-a-long-time/) [Michel Hazanavicius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-hazanavicius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea1/michel-hazanavicius-7804_easy_when-you-write-a-script-that-you-ve-felt_3161472.png) > [They said 'if you have a 3D movie, we'll buy it' because they want it. For maybe two weeks I really thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-hazanavicius/they-said-if-you-have-a-3d-movie-we-ll-buy-it-because-they-want-it/) [Michel Hazanavicius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-hazanavicius/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fe/michel-hazanavicius-7804_black_they-said-if-you-have-a-3d-movie-we-ll-b_689440.png) ## Michel Hazanavicius by topic [Cinema (26)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cinema/michel-hazanavicius/) [Movie (16)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/movie/michel-hazanavicius/) [Film (16)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/film/michel-hazanavicius/) [Movies (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/movies/michel-hazanavicius/) [Thinking (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/michel-hazanavicius/) [Silent movies (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silent-movies/michel-hazanavicius/) [People (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/michel-hazanavicius/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-hazanavicius/#itemlist", "name": "Michel Hazanavicius Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I always loved silent movies. 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