Arnaud Desplechin Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Music is the perfect type of art.

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

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.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

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.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

When we separate music from life we get art.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

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

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.

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.

I watched a lot of silent movies. It's a very specific way of writing, which is more of a challenge than the directing. You have to describe images. It's easier to shoot them.

Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like - and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.

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 write songs based on things I see in the culture around me.