Jean Dujardin Quotes

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

When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

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

I would've been a really big silent movie star.

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 true.

My father, who was a good deal older than my mother, had basically grown up with silent films; sound didn't arrive until he was 30 years old. So he took me to see silent pictures at MoMA when I was 5 or 6 years old.

There will never be talking pictures.

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 that goes on with it.

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling.

Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films.

I loved 'Junebug.' It was one of my favorite films, my favorite type of film.

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.

Now I'm the go-to-girl for silent films.

When I was a little boy, there was no sound in the movies.

I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the Academy, which is the first comedy made with Charlie Chaplin in 1914, and I sat there, and I couldn't believe that the entire audience of 2,000 people were laughing that hard from a movie made in 1914 - and there were no words; it was all faces.

I'm a big fan of silent cinema and I think that before I got into the canon of European arthouse cinema, the first interesting films I liked as a kid were German expressionist silent films.

In a silent film, the visuals are of utmost importance.

I love film and I love sitcoms, and I was one of those kids that would just go to the movies on the weekend and spend my whole weekend watching all of the movies.

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

I've always loved film more than theater.