So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age. Norman McLaren Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. Norman McLaren Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Norman McLaren Read Quote
Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new – for me, unique – in it. Norman McLaren Read Quote
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. Norman McLaren Read Quote
Unless it’s done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element. Norman McLaren Read Quote
