Action Quote by Laurie R. King

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

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

In cinema we have all kinds of ways of communicating: cinematography, lighting, character performance. If you pay attention to silent era movie actors, they…

— Jenova Chen

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, the visuals are of utmost importance.

— Karthik Subbaraj

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

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

— David Mamet

When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some…

— Michel Hazanavicius

It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film…

— Gurinder Chadha

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

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with…

— Conrad Hall