Silent Era Quotes

I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

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

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.

Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

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.

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

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

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

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

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

I love W.C. Fields. I can watch all the Laurel & Hardys.

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

It's the demand of all demands to do a car chase that's unique because there are so many... really since the beginning of film, even in the silent era, 'The Keystone Cops.'

I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.

If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.

Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes had live musical accompaniment, though it wasn't until the 1920s that sound became truly incorporated into films, eventually making silent ones obsolete in cinema.

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

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.

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 actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's.

I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a compliment, honestly.

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