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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

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. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#cast #emotions #great #had #i

It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#any #beyond #coming #could #country

Don't we all want what's best for each other? ↗

— Levon Helm

#each #other #want

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head. ↗

— Angel Haze

#back #free #get #head #i