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Michel Hazanavicius

Michel Hazanavicius (French pronunciation: [mi.ʃɛl a.za.na.vi.sjys] ( listen); born 29 March 1967) is a French film director, producer, screenwriter and film editor best known for his 2011 film, The Artist, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards. It also won him the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed spy film parodies OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) and OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009).

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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

Acting, Directors, Done, Kings, Like

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance

Art, Balance, Filmmakers, Struggle

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.

Day, Dialogue, Focus, I Love You, Ways, Wife

All over the world there are a lot of distributors that have the equipment for 3D but they don't have the movies really. The only source of 3D movies is Hollywood. Only Hollywood sends the 3D movies. So it was an option.

Distributors, Hollywood, Source, World

People inside the theaters usually, not 100 percent but most of them, enjoy the movie. Usually they come with a small negative view. In a way, they're prepared to get bored because it's silent and because it's black and white. So they are much more pleased to be entertained in a way. They're very happy when they go out. This was my job. For the other ones, I can do nothing except screen the movie and hope that they will say to their friends that it's not so [bad].

Black And White, Except, Jobs, Movie, Percent, Views

The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so it's really graphic and visual. And the French were something else.

Architecture, Artist, Artists, Cinema, Graphical, Movement

I chose the American ones, more or less the last five years of the silent era, because those are the ones that aged the best in the way they tell the story. One, it's about human beings with context. It's a very classical story with feelings, with laughter, melodrama and it really works, the good ones - Murnau's American movies, John Ford's Four Sons, King Vidor's The Crowd, or the (Josef) von Sternberg movies. You can watch it now and it still works. I mean they are really, really good pieces so this is where I tried to work.

Context, Four, King, Kings, Laughter, Mean

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

Connections, Feeling, Feelings, Fun, Movies, Story

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.

Confused, Fact, Old, People, Slightly, Thinking

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

Computers, Phones, Thinking, Way

I make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.

Aspect, Aspects, Deal, Decision, Financial, Set

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound. . . I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying

Actors, Emotions, Images, Sound, Stories

I went to Hollywood. I put the action in Hollywood. I watched a lot of movies, maybe 100 or something close to that. I have tons of DVDs now at home. I don't know what to do with them because they're not useful anymore. My kids never watched them. I read a lot of autobiographies, listened to a lot of music by classical era composers like Franz Waxman, Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Newman and Leonard Bernstein. I listened to only that kind of music the entire time I was writing, even at home.

Era, Home, Kids, Movies, Watched, Writing

I looked at a lot of photos from Hollywood in the '20s, photographs of silent movies being filmed all over the world which are very specific and very evocative. Berenice, the lead actress, is my wife. She really followed the same path with me.

Actress, Berenice, Hollywood, Lead, Wife, World

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

Bernard, Composer, Genius, Herrmann

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.

Against, Frenchmen, Nothing, United States, Unusual

There are two kinds of audiences. There's the ones who were in the theaters, and the ones who are outside and we want them to come inside the theater. And, it's not the same.

Audiences, Kind, Kinds, Theaters, Two, Want

French people are strange about America, I think.

America, French, People, Think, Thinking

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

Actors, Audience, Filmmaking, Movie, Process, Recognition

I'm very happy in France making movies.

France, Happy, Making, Movies, Very Happy

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