Jean Cocteau Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

  Jean Cocteau

  Photography, Silence, Cry

• Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

  Jean Cocteau

  Moving, Silence, Faster

  Jean Cocteau (1972). “Three screenplays: L'Eternel retour, Orphée, La Belle et la bête”

• The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.

  Jean Cocteau

  Laughter, Silence, Black

  "Two Screenplays: The Blood of a Poet. The Testament of Orpheus".

• Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

  Jean Cocteau

  Silence, Secret, Way

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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