Cinema Quote by Allison Schroeder

When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything,…

— Tom Ford

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…

— Michel Hazanavicius

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to…

— Denis Villeneuve

Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the…

— Michel Hazanavicius

IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.

— David Mamet

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like…

— Hampton Fancher

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft…

— George Lucas

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me…

— Alain Resnais

I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school; he went…

— Gia Coppola

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope…

— Jason Reitman