D.W. Griffith
Birthday: 22 January 1875, LaGrange, Kentucky, USA
Birth Name: David Llewelyn Wark Griffith
Height: 180 cm
David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War hero. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic ...Show More
Talkies, squeakies, moanies, songies, squawkies . . . Just give them ten years to develop and you're Show more
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. Hide
Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
[on Douglas Fairbanks] He has such verve. He can use his body.
[on Douglas Fairbanks] He has such verve. He can use his body.
[on Mary Pickford] She never stopped listening and learning.
[on Mary Pickford] She never stopped listening and learning.
[Instructions Griffith allegedly gave to his assistants during the making of one of his epics, quote Show more
[Instructions Griffith allegedly gave to his assistants during the making of one of his epics, quoted by Josef von Sternberg in his memoir "Fun in a Chinese Laundry"] Move these 10,000 horses a trifle to the right, and that mob out there three feet forward. Hide
Everything went downhill after Lillian [Lillian Gish] left me.
Everything went downhill after Lillian [Lillian Gish] left me.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? What art? What science?
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? What art? What science?
Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
[on being honored at the 1935 Academy Awards ceremony] We had many worries in those days, small worr Show more
[on being honored at the 1935 Academy Awards ceremony] We had many worries in those days, small worries. Now you people have your worries and they are big ones. They have grown with the business - and no matter what its problems, it's the greatest business in the world. Hide
[on sound movies] It is my arrogant belief that we have lost beauty.
[on sound movies] It is my arrogant belief that we have lost beauty.
We do not want now and we never shall want the human voice with our films. Music -- fine music -- wi Show more
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. Hide
by G.W. Bitzer in "Billy Bitzer: His Story."] A film without a message is just a waste of time.
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.
There will never be talking pictures.
[on what people associated with silent films] The good old American faculty of wanting to be shown t Show more
[on what people associated with silent films] The good old American faculty of wanting to be shown things. Hide
[to Mary Pickford] You're too little and too fat, but I might give you a job.
[to Mary Pickford] You're too little and too fat, but I might give you a job.
Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole wo Show more
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. Hide
[on James Mason] That Mason is the greatest actor.
[on James Mason] That Mason is the greatest actor.
I made them see, didn't I? I changed everything.
I made them see, didn't I? I changed everything.
D.W. Griffith's FILMOGRAPHY
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