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" Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds. "
Norman McLaren
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Simple
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" 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. "
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" Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element. "
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" 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. "
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" Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it. "
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" Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. "
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" The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me. "
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Evolving
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" By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects. "
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" I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. "
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" So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age. "
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" 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. "
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" Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing. "
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" 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. "
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Size
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