Miranda Otto Quotes

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 purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which is the visual language.

I didn't quite realise until we started to put together our first cut of 'Wonderstruck' how much time is spent with no words spoken whatsoever.

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

We're really interested in more visual storytelling, figuring out a way to blend our level of observation with a bigger visual scope.

Cinema is a visual medium one has to communicate through visuals, and therefore, dialogues should be less.

When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

Cinema is like dream.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

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 without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

I love scenes with minimal dialogue.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

As I started to develop as a director, I wanted to do projects that were inherently more cinematic, where the freight was not so much in the dialogue, where it would be carried more by the camera.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.