Quotes by Silent Films It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick. Adolphe Menjou walking-sticks silent-films jobs Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey Andy Partridge silent-films rainy-day play With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films. Bob Hope silent-films language today 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. Catherine Deneuve silent-films play watches I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face. Faith Prince silent-films stars keys 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 hollywood-films silent-films today 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 silent-films talking people When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body. Helena Christensen silent-films creating body I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid. Jean Dujardin silent-films eyelashes thinking The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty. Jean-Luc Godard silent-films cutting age I love silent films. The future is unwritten. Jim Jarmusch silent-films silent film 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 silent-films country thinking For me, each book is kind of like a silent film. If you were to remove the words and just look at the pictures, you should be able to tell what the story is about without having to read a word of text. That's what I think I brought from doing artwork for film to doing artwork for books. Kadir Nelson silent-films book thinking When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director. Kola Boof abel silent-films speak-english I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued. Laura Moriarty silent-films icons smart 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 silent-films example people 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. Laurie R. King silent-films nails expression The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era. Nick Turse silent-films military long The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion. Pedro Almodovar silent-films firsts thinking Now I’m the go-to-girl for silent films. Penelope Ann Miller silent-films film girl 12»