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" And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same. "
Philosophy
Simple
Same
" Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. "
Drawn
Movements
Move
" But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature. "
Quality
Precious
Man
" By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects. "
Create
Harmony
I Can
" Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing. "
Film
Help
Keep
" I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new. "
Know
Back
Different
" I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. "
Film
Relationship
Canvas
" 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 a color film. "
Black
Why
Color
" In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film. "
Film
Art
New
" So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age. "
New
Age
Spirit
" Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it. "
Unique
Film
Take
" The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made. "
Moral
Unity
Good
" The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes. "
Difficult
Size
Quality
" The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me. "
Art
Evolving
Always
" Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element. "
Hell
Film
Gate
" Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds. "
Well
Sounds
Smooth
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