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Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

— Mary Pickford

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

— Alfred Hitchcock

You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.

— Randeep Hooda

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

— Penelope Spheeris

In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

— Christopher Abbott

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

— Stephen Hopkins

It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In the end, you don't want music to be noticed as much as digested and integrated into the storytelling. And make audiences sit forward in their seats and enjoy the movie.

— Thomas Newman

I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.

— Arnaud Desplechin

✗Opposing Perspectives

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.

— Fred Frith

I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

— Rita Ora