Silent Film/elements 1894 - 1929

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

    “Why should she give her bounty to the dead?
    What is divinity if it can come
    Only in silent shadows and in dreams?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
    —Ingmar Bergman (b. 1918)

    “Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches everything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field!”
    —Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)