Michel Hazanavicius

When you write a script that you've felt in your soul for a long time, you can't ask the actors to go through the same emotions. You have to do part of the job to make things as easy as possible for them.

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.

'Avatar' is a great movie. I really love it.

I can't force people to agree with me.

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors to do it, or the dialogue.

The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.