Silent Cinema Quotes

#1. I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

Michel Hazanavicius

#2. My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

Carice Van Houten

#3. When I was a kid, I wanted to emulate Mel Blanc, who is arguably one of the most legendary voiceover recording artists of our time. I used to watch all the cartoons where he would voice Daffy, Elmer Fudd and Porky the Pig. I knew one day I wanted to do that.

Jesse McCartney

#4. I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#5. Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

Jean Dujardin

#6. The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema ...

Derek Jarman

#7. The silent pictures were the purest form of cinema

Alfred Hitchcock

#8. But Schaffa is a grown-up, and grown-ups need their sleep; that's what her father always said whenever she or Chaga did something that woke him up.

N.K. Jemisin

#9. Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't think it will ever go away because it's so universal. Humor doesn't always travel to other countries, but horror does.

John Carpenter

#10. I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s.

Lana Del Rey

#11. Autonomous Christianity never works, because our spiritual life was designed by God to be a community project.

Paul David Tripp

#12. Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.

Steven Millhauser

#13. People tell me I live in the past. We all live in the past, I tell them, we just don't know it yet." ("Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me," Wild Card Press, 1995)

Will Viharo

#14. I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types.

George Lucas

#15. No one wanted to deal with damaged. It made them uncomfortable.

Cambria Hebert

#16. The woman who says, 'My kids are all speaking to one another and they love us' is a psychopathic liar.

Erma Bombeck