Cinema Quote by Laura Moriarty

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

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

It took only 50 years for movies to go from silent to unspeakable.

— Doug Larson

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

— Howard Shore

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go…

— Gary Cole

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's…

— Berenice Bejo

Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by…

— Kevin Brownlow

I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a…

— George Lucas

I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not…

— Arnaud Desplechin

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

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