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Norman McLaren

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

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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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Donna Grant

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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Donna Grant

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Donna Grant

"Looper is another great film."

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Donna Grant

"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."

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Donna Grant

"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."

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Donna Grant

"I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film."

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

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Donna Grant

"It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film."

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Donna Grant

"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."

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Donna Grant

"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."

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

Film

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Norman McLaren
"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

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Norman McLaren
"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

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Norman McLaren
"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

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Norman McLaren
"Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing."

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Norman McLaren
"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."

Spirit

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

Film

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

Film

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Norman McLaren
"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."

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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

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