Animation is manipulating the difference.

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.

If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains.

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

I adapt to directors, I don't like making directors adapt to me. If I'm with Clint Eastwood then I'll do two takes, if I'm with Fincher I'll do 50 - though the thought of that sounds horrible.

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

Five years later I still wake up screaming for him to run

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

Seeing Messi play is like watching a video game.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.