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King Vidor: "When sound came in, it was absolutely normal for directors such as René Clair, Clarence Brown, Chaplin, and many others to be against it. They thought they had achieved a medium of expression--that with close-ups and lighting you could show what somebody was thinking. You didn't need anything else. That was the whole art of silent films."