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"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
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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."
"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
"Making your first feature film is actually impossible."
"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."
"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 have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
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