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.
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'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.
My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.
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.
For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.
I would've been a really big silent movie star.
I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.
When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.
