Art Quote by Arnaud Desplechin

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence…

— Walter Murch

All of the silent films had live music accompaniment, so it's actually a very rich period in music.

— Howard Shore

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

— Alfred Hitchcock

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would…

— Laura Moriarty

Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live…

— Richelle Mead

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

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and…

— Peter Weir

In a silent film, the visuals are of utmost importance.

— Karthik Subbaraj

Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.

— Ridley Scott

Without music, silence would be lost.

— Melania