Art Quote by Walter Murch

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

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

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

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

— Sanford Meisner

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

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'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

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

In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.

— Max von Sydow

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

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