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Film Quotes by Norman McLaren
- I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
- In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is…
- I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike…
- Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
- By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
- Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.
- Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.
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