Sami Gayle 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.

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.

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.

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.

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

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

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

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

I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.

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.

I was a big fan of Greta Garbo and that era of movies, so I dreamt watching those movies.

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

I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time.

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

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

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.

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

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.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

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.

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.