When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money! – Jonathan Demme
New-Year’s Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed. – Joanna Southcott
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. – Mary Wollstonecraft
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. – John Tillotson
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. – Michael Leunig
I wanted to resist in ‘The Look of Silence’ making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors. – Joshua Oppenheimer
When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence. – Lev Grossman
Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is – sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent. – Margaret Heffernan
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. – Khalil Gibran
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
To put it crudely, ‘The Act of Killing’ would blast open the space for the more delicate film, ‘The Look of Silence,’ to do its work. – Joshua Oppenheimer
The opening of ‘There Will Be Blood’ with that score and then deafening silence was memorable. – Jenny Scheinman
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. – Mason Cooley
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind. – Jay Griffiths
Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out. – Lech Walesa
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence. – Saint Basil
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. – Pierre Bourdieu
We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. – Philip Pullman
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics. – Rebecca MacKinnon
There’s a bunch of Stephen King books I love. ‘Salem’s Lot’ was always one of my favourites. ‘It.’ ‘Needful Things.’ Moving away from King, and ‘Silence of the Lambs’ is always a good choice. – Paul Cleave