Silent Film Technology Quotes

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

There will never be talking pictures.

When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.