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"Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing."
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"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
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"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
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"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done."
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"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about."
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Explore more quotes by Norman McLaren
"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."
Art
"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
Film
"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."
Life
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
Film
"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."
Quality
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
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"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."
Intelligence
"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."
Art
"Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing."
Film
"So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age."
Age
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