Movie Quote by Monica Bellucci

In a silent film, the visuals are of utmost importance.

— Karthik Subbaraj

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

— Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 think sometimes there are films where I understand what they are about, but there are also some mysterious areas in the film where…

— Lucile Hadzihalilovic

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've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft…

— George Lucas