Bernard Herrmann Was A Genius, A Great,

It's Just Incredible. When You're French, Coming From A Non-english Language Country, You Don't Even Dream About Oscar Recognition Or Nominations. It's Just Beyond The Dream. It's Something Very, Very Special And Unique. It's The Highest Recognition Any Filmmaker Could Dream Of

When You're With Your Wife, You Don't Say I Love You To Your Wife Every Day But The Ways You Look At Her And Your Actions Are Another Way To Communicate. Don't Focus On Dialogue, Only Focus On What You're Expressing.

This Is The Problem With Language, And This Is What Makes Silent Movies Fun, Because The Connection With Them, Me Or The Audience Is Not With The Language. There's No Question Of Interpretation Of What We Are Saying It's Just About Feeling. You Create Your Own Story

I Watched A Lot Of Silent Directors Who Were Absolutely Great Like John Ford And Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, And Also Some Very Modern Directors Like The Coen Brothers. The Directors Take The Freedom Within Their Own Movies To Be Melodramatic Or Funny When They Chose To Be. They Do Whatever They Want And They Don't Care About The Genre.

I Chose The American Ones, More Or Less The Last Five Years Of The Silent Era, Because Those Are The Ones That Aged The Best In The Way They Tell The Story. One, It's About Human Beings With Context. It's A Very Classical Story With Feelings, With Laughter, Melodrama And It Really Works, The Good Ones - Murnau's American Movies, John Ford's Four Sons, King Vidor's The Crowd, Or The (josef) Von Sternberg Movies. You Can Watch It Now And It Still Works. I Mean They Are Really, Really Good Pieces So This Is Where I Tried To Work.