"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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"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."

Explore more quotes by Norman McLaren

"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."

Life, Film

"The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me."

Art,

"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."

Delight, Philosophy

"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."

Art, Animation

"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."

Intelligence, Quality, Consciousness, Man

"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, Intimacy

"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."

Film, Hell

"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."

Art, Desire, Film

"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."

Art, Work, Balance, Contrast

"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."

Quality, Control

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"It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters."

Robert Altman, American Director

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"With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner."

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

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"The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika."

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

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"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian Director

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"But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place."

Dario Argento, Italian Director

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"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."

Dario Argento, Italian Director

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"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

Darren Aronofsky, American Director

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"The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired."

Colleen Atwood, American Designer

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"I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival."

David Attenborough, British Journalist

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"He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film."

Bille August, Danish Director

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