121 Quotes by 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.

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

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

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.

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

French people are strange about America, I think.

But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.

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.