Avoiding Quote by Michel Hazanavicius

I've always worked a lot with silence in my films. It forces the audience to concentrate on what they're seeing, because silence is pure…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is…

— Michel Hazanavicius

The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself…

— Bruno Dumont

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used…

— Amitabh Bachchan

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

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

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make…

— Harmony Korine

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise…

— Larry Cohen

“There are those who see film and take it seriously as an artistic medium, and others who go to have a good time, to…

— Michael Haneke

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

I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing…

— Karan Johar

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