Marcel Dzama Quotes

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural.

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged about 15. It made a gigantic impression on me.

My mom loved the old black-and-white films.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather.

I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s.

For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.

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

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.

My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'

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

I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.

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

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.