When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director. — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact… — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era. — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest… — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
All of the silent films had live music accompaniment, so it's actually a very rich period in music. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I… — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Im obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think thats extremely… — Sami Gayle Copy Share Image
For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
Personally, I think the silent films were more effective for L&H, but the sound was of great value in enhancing the effects… — Stan Laurel Copy Share Image
I was always the hero with no vices, reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie… — Ramon Novarro Copy Share Image
While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/… — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
A film, since it is primarily a visual medium, should really be like a silent film. You should be able to watch… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“Television wasn't getting rid of animals, but they were no longer cast as creatures that were omniscient and heroic. They were talking… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Do you know anything about silent films?” “Sure,” I said. “The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characters… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
My father, who was a good deal older than my mother, had basically grown up with silent films; sound didn't arrive until… — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when… — Serge Daney Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of silent cinema and I think that before I got into the canon of European arthouse cinema, the… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I love going back to those silent films because my father who is totally deaf loved Buster Keaton. Loved him! More than… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but… — Carice van Houten Copy Share Image
