Able Quote by Arnaud Desplechin

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

— David Mamet

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

In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.

— Max von Sydow

I gravitate towards silent characters who don't talk much.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

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

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

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

— Bob Hope

When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make…

— Peter Mayhew

I'm an actor who isn't fond of dialogue and who loves to act silently.

— Francois Cluzet

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today…

— Catherine Deneuve

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people…

— Walter Murch

Ever since I made the short film 'Black And White,' which had almost no dialogues, the idea of making a silent feature film fascinated…

— Karthik Subbaraj