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.
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.
When I was a little boy, there was no sound in the movies.
I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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.
There will never be talking pictures.
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.
