Caitriona Balfe Quotes

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

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.

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

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

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

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.

In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

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.

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

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.

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.

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 think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

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 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. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling.

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

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.

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.