Richelle Mead Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

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

I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'

For film at the beginning of the 20th century, they didn't even know what editing was yet. Actors didn't know how to perform in front of the camera. There wasn't sound.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

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.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

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

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.

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.

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 would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.

The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.

Movies used to be called the 'flicks' because they flickered badly: because 16 or 18 frames a second - which was those hand cranked movies on a single-bladed shutter - was really badly flickering.

I can say is usually people are slightly confused. They think that silent movies are old. But, the fact is, they are old because they have been made in the '20s. That's the thing that makes them old. Not the format. The format is just a format. It's not an old format.