Silent Films Quotes

• The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Thinking, Firsts, Emotion

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.

  Jean Dujardin

  Thinking, Eyelashes, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Film, Silent, Unwritten

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A film, since it is primarily a visual medium, should really be like a silent film. You should be able to watch something and understand what was going on and use voice when you need to communicate something you can't necessarily communicate visually. The book is the opposite. The book is an inner monologue which is beautiful.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Book, Opposites

  "Director Tom Ford Interview A SINGLE MAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2009.

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• With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

  Bob Hope

  Today, Language, Profanity

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• For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures, you should be able to tell what the story is about without having to read a word of text. That's what I think I brought from doing artwork for film to doing artwork for books.

  Kadir Nelson

  Book, Thinking, Looks

  "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

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• Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

  Peter Weir

  Art, Thinking, Sound

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• It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

  Adolphe Menjou

  Jobs, Walking Sticks, White

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Hollywood Films, Today, Next

  Source: collider.com

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• Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't think it will ever go away because it's so universal. Humor doesn't always travel to other countries, but horror does.

  John Carpenter

  Country, Thinking, Going Away

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?

  Alison Mosshart

  Goodbye, Song, Hate

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• The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

  Nick Turse

  Military, Long, Hollywood

  "The Real-Life Matrix". Interview with Casey Miner, www.motherjones.com. April 01, 2008.

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• The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Cutting, Age, Thirty

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types.

  George Lucas

  Talking, People, Style

  "Star Wars archive: George Lucas 1999 interview". Interview with Ian Freer, www.empireonline.com. September 1999.

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• When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.

  Kola Boof

  Speak English, Abel, Directors

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• While I was writing the book, I went to see Louise Brooks's most famous film, Pandora's Box, at the Tivoli in Kansas City, and it was a lovely experience. You can watch old silent films on DVD or even on YouTube, but it was a different feeling watching her up on the big screen, seeing the film the way people saw it all those years ago.

  Laura Moriarty

  Book, Writing, Dvds

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

  Laura Moriarty

  Smart, Icons, Kansas

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• 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 go to the movies several times a week.

  Laura Moriarty

  People, Example, Week

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

  Laurie R. King

  Expression, Nails, Plot

  "Novelist Laurie R. King talks silent film, Sherlock Holmes and arghhh – pirates!". Interview with Thomas Gladysz, blog.sfgate.com. September 5, 2011.

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• Im obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think thats extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  Sami Gayle

  Thinking, Interesting, Romance

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• Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

  Richelle Mead

  Musical, Sound, Cinema

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• Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales...from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover... An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster.

  Penelope Lively

  Dream, Flower, Moving

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• When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'

  Alain Resnais

  Book, Thinking, Impact

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• When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

  Helena Christensen

  Creating, Body, Emotion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was always the hero with no vices, reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie actors are less handicapped than the old ones. They are more human. The leading men of silent films were Adonises and Apollos. Today the hero can even take a poke at the leading lady. In my time a hero who hit the girl just once would have been out.

  Ramon Novarro

  Girl, Hero, Men

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