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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.
Norman McLaren
By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
Norman McLaren
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.
Norman McLaren
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
Norman McLaren
Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.
Norman McLaren
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.
Norman McLaren
Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
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.
Norman McLaren
Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.
Norman McLaren
So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.
Norman McLaren
The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.
Norman McLaren