Art Quote by Kevin Brownlow

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

— Alfred Hitchcock

I did a movie in Esperanto.

— William Shatner

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

Art and cinema is not restricted to any language.

— Shweta Tripathi

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

— Bob Hope

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

— Sergei Eisenstein

I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.

— Edgar Wright

In fact, I feel that cinema has no language.

— Pratik Gandhi

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative.…

— Emmanuel Lubezki

Film is anti-language.

— Sam Shepard

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to…

— Godfrey Reggio

Language, I think, has nothing to do with film-making. It is how you make your point and whether you exploit the visual medium maintaining…

— Mani Ratnam