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

Film, Harmony

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"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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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."

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"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."

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"I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked."

Conrad Hall, American Artist

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"I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself."

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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."

Julie Christie, British Actress

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"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."

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"To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another."

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"I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera."

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"I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on."

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

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"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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"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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"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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"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."

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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."

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

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"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."

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

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