Quotes by Michel Hazanavicius

Godard never sought to be sympathetic.

When you write a script that you've felt in your soul for a long time, you can't ask the actors to go through the same emotions. You have to do part of the job to make things as easy as possible for them.

I watched a lot of silent movies. It's a very specific way of writing, which is more of a challenge than the directing. You have to describe images. It's easier to shoot them.

'Avatar' is a great movie. I really love it.

It's a dream for a director, at least to try a studio movie.

I can't force people to agree with me.

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

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors to do it, or the dialogue.

I don't make films to reproduce reality.

What I love is to create a show and for people to enjoy it and be aware that's what it is: a show.