Able Quote by Channing Tatum

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

— Willem Dafoe

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

— Alexander Payne

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going…

— Alfred Hitchcock

I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up seeing something…

— Lynne Ramsay

Most sound work in films is done very quickly, and at the end of the schedule where it's just jammed together and you always…

— Ben Burtt

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

— Gary Ross

I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable…

— Takeshi Kitano

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

— Eli Roth

There's a lot of noise in the world. And one of the beautiful things about doing theater and film is the absence of that…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without…

— Michel Hazanavicius

Most movies, you have to try and forget you're making a movie, because there are trailers and booms and lights and marks, and it's…

— Ryan Gosling