Cinema Quote by Tom Ford

Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I watched a lot of silent movies. It's a very specific way of writing, which is more of a challenge than the directing. You…

— Michel Hazanavicius

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

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which…

— Nicole Kidman

When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to…

— Allison Schroeder

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people…

— Walter Murch

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems…

— Michel Hazanavicius

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

One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If…

— Woody Allen

In cinema we have all kinds of ways of communicating: cinematography, lighting, character performance. If you pay attention to silent era movie actors, they…

— Jenova Chen

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or…

— Milos Forman

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