Cinéma Contre-Vérité

“He gave Marion Crane the money she needed and stopped her dying at the Bates Motel”.

Hitchcock has said that during the silent era the great directors ‘had reached something near perfection’. The introduction of sound , in a way, jeopardised that perfection.’

‘Whatever is said instead of being shown is lost on the viewer’ Truffaut.

Found in a letter in the Guardian.
A Jean-Luc Godard character may have defined cinema as "truth 24 times a second" but I like Frederic Raphael’s version.."Films are lies at 24 frames a second, and ditto when digital"