Big Quote by Robert Eggers

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

— Alfred Hitchcock

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 always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

— Michel Hazanavicius

I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.

— Keith Johnstone

I chose the American ones, more or less the last five years of the silent era, because those are the ones that aged the…

— Michel Hazanavicius

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

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would…

— Laura Moriarty

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by…

— Michel Hazanavicius

For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.

— Jean Dujardin

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

The earliest movies that I loved were French movies and Italian movies. I grew up watching those kind of movies and often find the…

— Lucy Fisher