Cant Quote by 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

Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characters stand in…

— Guy Maddin

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

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

First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt that people…

— Michel Hazanavicius

When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to…

— Allison Schroeder

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

— Bob Hope

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

— Jim Jarmusch

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful…

— Anjelica Huston

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 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

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to…

— Laurie R. King