Talkies Quotes

The audience will have to focus on the visuals... But they had silent films before talkies arrived, and people went to see them.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

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.