Action Quote by Stan Laurel

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

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

One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and use underscoring…

— Garth Kravits

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

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

— Alfred Hitchcock

The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats,…

— Shane Black

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

— Jean Dujardin

Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live…

— Richelle Mead

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

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence…

— Walter Murch

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

— Ben Kingsley

All of the silent films had live music accompaniment, so it's actually a very rich period in music.

— Howard Shore