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 used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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.
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'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.
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 never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.
I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'
I'm a big fan of silent cinema and I think that before I got into the canon of European arthouse cinema, the first interesting films I liked as a kid were German expressionist silent films.
Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.
I was always a big fan of Charlie Chaplin movies. I love 'The Great Dictator' and 'City Lights.'
My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.
When I was a little boy, there was no sound in the movies.
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.
Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.
I would've been a really big silent movie star.
Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events in the background.
Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.
The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.
I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.
Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
