Top 16 Quotes by Norman McLaren

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

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.

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.

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.

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

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

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.

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

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

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.