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

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

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

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Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

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

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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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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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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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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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