#silent movie

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. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#camera #cutting #down #everybody #front

I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#connected #crawford #cute #dance #different

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#became #device #directing #expression #fascinated

I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#also #any #bed #cannot #crew

This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#audience #because #connection #create #feeling

When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#best #codes #directors #done #good

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#brooks #chance #films #got #high