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"Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing."
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"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."
"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."
"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."
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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."
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age."
"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
"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."
"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."
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