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We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

#budget #disaster #economic #facing #families

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

#another #another way #communicate #day #dialogue

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#became #device #directing #expression #fascinated

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. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#allowed #american #being #cliches #foreigner

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#hair #head #two #worth

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#difficulty #everything #grace #hesitation #incongruity

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

#director #foreigner #french #frenchman #i

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. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#changes #computers #digital #everything #film

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

#artist #artistic #audience #audiences #balance

I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#also #any #bed #cannot #crew