Mary Pickford Quote

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.


Attributed (1934) in Eileen Whitfield, Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood (1997), p. 269–270


The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie...

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie...

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie...

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie...