Michel Hazanavicius Quotes

Where words fail, music speaks.

Music is the soul of language.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

A picture is a poem without words.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Silence is also conversation.

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

My heart and soul is still music.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.