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Michel Hazanavicius
Michel Hazanavicius
French Director
Born: Mar 29, 1967
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Related authors: Agnes Varda Alain Resnais Claude Chabrol Francois Truffaut Jean-Luc Godard Jean Cocteau Robert Bresson Sacha Guitry
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
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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. Michel Hazanavicius
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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. Michel Hazanavicius
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When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor. Michel Hazanavicius
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To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them. Michel Hazanavicius
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There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance. Michel Hazanavicius
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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. Michel Hazanavicius
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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. Michel Hazanavicius
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But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important. Michel Hazanavicius
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Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet. Michel Hazanavicius
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Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies. Michel Hazanavicius
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This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story. Michel Hazanavicius
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I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre. Michel Hazanavicius
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When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable. Michel Hazanavicius
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But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. Michel Hazanavicius
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Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. Michel Hazanavicius
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I'm very happy in France making movies. Michel Hazanavicius
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Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies. Michel Hazanavicius
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But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Michel Hazanavicius
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French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction. Michel Hazanavicius
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I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States. Michel Hazanavicius
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When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first. Michel Hazanavicius
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My ambition with 'Redoubtable' was to make a film that would be aesthetically pleasing, charming, and touching. Michel Hazanavicius
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Even if I make fun of him, I try to portray him as a human being. Sometimes because he's the great Jean-Luc Godard, we see him as a concept. Michel Hazanavicius
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Anne Wiazemsky wrote two books about her life with Jean-Luc Godard between 1966 and 1969. And I first read the second one, which is about the fall of their love story and their marriage. I immediately thought there was a movie to make with this book because it was so funny, and I thought the love story was very, very touching. Michel Hazanavicius
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With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created. Michel Hazanavicius
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