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Norman McLaren

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

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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

"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

"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."

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Donna Grant

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

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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."

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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
"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
"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."

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Norman McLaren
"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."

Art

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

Age

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

Film

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Norman McLaren
"The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me."

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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."

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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."

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