D.w. Griffith's biography
According to year of birth 1875 D.W. Griffith belongs to . Birthday on 22nd of January means D.W. Griffith is Aquarius. Aquarius is an Airy sign. They are smart thinkers, social, communicative, independent and intelligent people.
How did D.w. Griffith die
D.W. Griffith died on on Friday 23rd of July 1948 when he was 73 years old. D.w. Griffiths death was caused by cerebral hemorrhage.
What D.w. Griffith has done for a first time
- His first sound film was Abraham Lincoln (1930).
- Was the first to utter the catchphrase "Lights, camera, action!" in 1910, on the set of In Old California (1910). It, like many of his techniques, are still widely used in filmmaking.
D.w. Griffith's quotes
- by G.W. Bitzer in "Billy Bitzer: His Story."] A film without a message is just a waste of time.
- There will never be talking pictures.
- Talkies, squeakies, moanies, songies, squawkies . . . Just give them ten years to develop and you're going to see the greatest artistic medium the world has known.
- Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
- Everything went downhill after Lillian [Lillian Gish] left me.
- [on what people associated with silent films] The good old American faculty of wanting to be shown things.
- I made them see, didn't I? I changed everything.
- Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
- Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? What art? What science?
- [on Douglas Fairbanks] He has such verve. He can use his body.
- We do not want now and we never shall want the human voice with our films. Music -- fine music -- will always be the voice of the silent drama.
- [on James Mason] That Mason is the greatest actor.
- [on sound movies] It is my arrogant belief that we have lost beauty.
- [on Mary Pickford] She never stopped listening and learning.
- [to Mary Pickford] You're too little and too fat, but I might give you a job.
D.w. Griffith's body shape
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