I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.
Interpretation
Lillian Gish expresses her belief that silent films were a unique and expressive art form worthy of appreciation.
In this quote, Lillian Gish reflects on her disapproval of 'talkies', highlighting the artistic value of silent films. She suggests that silent movies were not simply a precursor to sound films but rather an intricate art form that conveyed deep emotion and narrative through visual storytelling, pantomime, and expression without the reliance on dialogue.
In practice
During a film discussion, when talking about the evolution of cinema.
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
The stage was our school, our home, our life.
The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.
I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.
A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman’s body.
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.
Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever
Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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