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.
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.
There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!
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