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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural.

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• ‟ Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.

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• ‟ This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.

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• ‟ I'm very happy in France making movies.

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• ‟ 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.

  - Michel Hazanavicius
  

• ‟ Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.

  - Michel Hazanavicius
  

• ‟ When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.

  - Michel Hazanavicius
  

• ‟ I've always been against the idea of dividing films between festival titles and popular movies. I think you can make films that are both.

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• ‟ I watched a lot of silent movies. It's a very specific way of writing, which is more of a challenge than the directing. You have to describe images. It's easier to shoot them.

  - Michel Hazanavicius