Audience Quote by Michel Hazanavicius

The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a text brings you back to a basic…

— Michel Hazanavicius

Usually, when you're in a movie, you're disconnected from it. You're never going to feel what you felt when you made it.

— Ellen Page

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent…

— Pedro Almodovar

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

With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created.

— Michel Hazanavicius

In entertainment, if you have a message in a film, no one wants to be spoon-fed the message. No one wants to be told…

— Jermaine Fowler

Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching…

— Bennett Miller

I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences.

— Philip Glenister

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

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

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

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are…

— Conrad Hall