I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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.
Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
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 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.
My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.
I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.
I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'
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.
When I was a little boy, there was no sound in the movies.
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.
Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events in the background.
I would've been a really big silent movie star.
For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.
Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.
Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.
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 way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.
When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.
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.
I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.
