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I only have one obsession - not to be boring.
Michel Hazanavicius
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Michel Hazanavicius
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 29
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Film Director
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France
Michel Hazanavičius
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Boring
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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. I know what we did in France was to have the maximum screenings just to let people talk about the movie and say they enjoyed the movie.
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I want to thank three person: I want to thank Billy Wilder. I want to thank Billy Wilder. And I want to thank Billy Wilder.
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Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.
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Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies
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Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.
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I think Hollywood is cleverer than you think. I'm not sure they will do it. I don't think so, but maybe I'm wrong. When we were doing the preparation of the movie, we didn't have all the money so we were looking for all the solutions possible, and 3D was one option.
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I'm very happy in France making movies.
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I watched a lot of movies from all over the world. The Russians were very good at editing. They were specialists in editing. The Man with a Camera, if you know that movie, is incredible. I still don't understand how it works. It's a movie with no script, no actors and still it works. It's really good. It's really about editing.
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I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and blood.
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I can say is usually people are slightly confused. They think that silent movies are old. But, the fact is, they are old because they have been made in the '20s. That's the thing that makes them old. Not the format. The format is just a format. It's not an old format.
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I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.
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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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I guess George Clooney would be a wonderful silent actor, and Leonardo DiCaprio is such a wonderful actor he certainly could do it.
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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 not parody. I tried to make it very simple. It's a simple story, but to be simple, it's very complex in the way it's done.
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I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything
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I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.
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I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
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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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But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.
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Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.
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