Top Silent Films Quotes Collection

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Image of Laura Moriarty
I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.
- Laura Moriarty
Collection: Silent Films
Image of Gaspard Ulliel
I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.
- Gaspard Ulliel
Collection: Silent Films
Image of Serge Daney
Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.
- Serge Daney
Collection: Silent Films
Image of Bob Hope
With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Silent Films
Image of Jim Jarmusch
I love silent films. The future is unwritten.
- Jim Jarmusch
Collection: Silent Films
Image of Kola Boof
When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.
- Kola Boof
Collection: Silent Films
Image of Richelle Mead
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.
- Richelle Mead
Collection: Silent Films