Louis Lumiere
Louis Lumiere:
“The cinema is an invention without a future.”
Tom Hanks (Castaway)
Tom Hanks (Regarding Castaway):
“There was nothing to react to except wind and trees. It was like making a silent movie.“
W. C. Fields with Mae West
W. C. Fields:
“The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play; then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.”
Walter Murch
Walter Murch:
“When I’m actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it’s a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.”
George Sidney (MGM Director)
George Sidney:
“I’ve had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn’t have time to go to school because I was in silent movies; I was in radio; I was in burlesque; I worked with the circus. I’m all show.”
Silent Film Scene
John Doyle:
“Imagine a silent movie studio.”
Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek:
“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.”
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese:
“Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.”
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog:
“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read…if you don’t read, you will never be a filmmaker.”
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille:
“I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, “I never do anything by halves, and am half-hearted in no cause that I embrace.”
Posted by Michael ‘Charlie’ McGee
