Michel Hazanavicius Quotes

I think the whole DVD craze has provided opportunities for material that, for those interested in it, explains the whole history and background in getting a film made, which is great.

I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most expressive. At a certain point, I felt I was winding up making the same film stylistically and I found that boring.

I like to make movies I like to watch.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

Movie-making is a very creative medium of expression.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

Film in many ways is very literal.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Big feature films are another world.

Nobody ever starts out to make a mediocre, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're done with your shooting, you have no control. You're just done, as an actor.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.