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