Silent Film/elements 1894 - 1929

Famous quotes containing the words silent, film and/or elements:

    “The oft-repeated Roman story is written in still legible characters in every quarter of the Old World, and but today, perchance, a new coin is dug up whose inscription repeats and confirms their fame. Some “Judæa Capta,” with a woman mourning under a palm tree, with silent argument and demonstration confirms the pages of history.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
    —Werner Herzog (b. 1942)

    “A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.”
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)