Michel Hazanavicius Quotes

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

I try and move with the times. If I stop and begin thinking about the past there will be a problem.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.

The business changes, and we don't all have to like the change, but it's, ultimately, the business is changed. But, that being said, I don't like it, and I'll tell you why. Because without the new school that we have right now, or without old school, there would be none of this new school, so it started somewhere, right?

One cannot afford to be nostalgic about the past and cling onto it.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

I think people don't really like change.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

Change means resistance, and resistance means transformation and igniting energies.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?