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An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.
Michel Hazanavicius
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Michel Hazanavicius
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 29
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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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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 make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.
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Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning actually, the first person I had to convince was myself really because there's a self-censorship. When everybody says 'we don't do silent movies anymore,' you agree with everybody, and you say 'yeah, you're right.' It was a fantasy.
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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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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 guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.
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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 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 only have one obsession - not to be boring.
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French people are strange about America, I think.
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If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.
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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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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 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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Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.
Michel Hazanavicius
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.
Michel Hazanavicius
When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don't focus on dialogue, only focus on what you're expressing.
Michel Hazanavicius
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.
Michel Hazanavicius
When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural
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