Silent Film/elements 1894 - 1929

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

    “Marriage isn’t a word—it’s a sentence.”
    —Caption from King Vidor’s silent film. The Crowd (1926)

    “The hills in their recumbent postures
    Look into the silent lake....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”
    —Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)

    “The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.”
    —Thomas Campbell (1777–1844)