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I Make Almost All The Decisions On Set And Have To Deal With All The Financial Aspects.

If You Try To Make A Silent Movie With A Normal Script And You Just Pull Out The Dialogue, You Will Have Big Problems With The Actors Because You Will Ask Them To Tell A Story That You Don't Know.

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

When You Look At The Early-'30s Movies, Like King Kong, The Codes Of Acting Are Very Similar To Those Of Silent Movies. In Some Of The Silent Movies - The Good Ones, The Ones Done By The Best Directors - The Acting Is Very, Very Natural

French People Are Strange About America, I Think.