Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.


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But to be chemically fixed in time and passed hand to hand forever: that is a nakedness which can ne...
MICHEL FABER
Era un hombre de muchos planes, pero de poco fruto.
MICHEL FABER
Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anyth...
MICHEL FABER
Un solo día dedicado a cosas que no alimentan el espíritu es un día robado, mutilado y arrojado a...
MICHEL FABER
God, Agnes has decided, is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have ...
MICHEL FABER
William Rackham es lo que podríamos llamar un cristiano ateo supersticioso; es decir, cree en un Di...
MICHEL FABER
She sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and s...
MICHEL FABER
if she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger c...
MICHEL FABER
All along the street, keys rattle in key-holes as each shop's ornate metal clothing is stripped away...
MICHEL FABER
This is a street where the weaker souls crawl into bed as soon as the sun sets and lie awake listeni...
MICHEL FABER
...to her, all familiar responses smell of entrapment. Sharing an old joke, singing an old song - th...
MICHEL FABER
Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.
MICHEL FABER
Few know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed sin...
MICHEL FABER
A truly modern man, William Rackham is what might be called a superstitious atheist Christian; that ...
MICHEL FABER
God damn God and all His horrible filthy Creation.
MICHEL FABER
Sunlight is bad,' he wheezes. 'It's the exact same stuff as breeds maggots in wounded soldiers' legs...
MICHEL FABER
Yes, seven years old she was, when she finally plucked up the courage to ask her mother what Christm...
MICHEL FABER
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a mome...
MICHEL FABER
Sugar leans her chin against the knuckles of the hand that holds the pen. Glistening on the page bet...
MICHEL FABER
Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?
MICHEL FABER
History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.
MICHEL FABER
Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?’ enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is ...
MICHEL FABER
Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
MICHEL FABER
People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're...
MICHEL GONDRY
Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's ...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
It is not pretentious. It just gives you the feeling you could do it yourself.
MICHEL GONDRY
Eternal Sunshine
MICHEL GONDRY
When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
MICHEL GONDRY
Block Party
MICHEL GONDRY
I always had disturbing dreams from when I was a child. Seeing that they disturb me, I might as well...
MICHEL GONDRY
We were hoping to define an era and a community without being too lecturing - to show people having ...
MICHEL GONDRY
We made some bad decisions. When you don't win, you're tense. You probably don't think the same way....
MICHEL THERRIEN
It's nice to get a reward, seeing your team like we have been seeing here. They have been playing pr...
MICHEL THERRIEN
We're a team that our work ethic has to be 100 percent, our concentration has to be 100 percent and ...
MICHEL THERRIEN
I'm not afraid to play him back to back. We'll see how it goes (tonight) and then make a decision fo...
MICHEL THERRIEN
I liked the way he played; that's why we called him up. He played with confidence. We wish him the b...
MICHEL THERRIEN
It's so great just to get to the Super Bowl and so great for the city. Pittsburgh is just a great ci...
MICHEL THERRIEN
It was measured about 10 times and half the measures seemed to show it was okay while the other half...
MICHEL VION
That history is still playing a role in Germany. Population policy was long a taboo topic.
HARALD MICHEL
Since last Tuesday, the government was looking for a solution out of the crisis. It was obvious that...
MICHEL BRUNACHE
Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.
MICHEL FABER
Our government is concerned about the future. Everything we do today is not aimed at tomorrow but ra...
MICHEL TEMER
The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come...
MICHEL FOUCAULT