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.

- 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.

- 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.

- Norman Mclaren

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

- Norman Mclaren

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

- 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 fi…

- Norman Mclaren

Animation is manipulating the difference.

- Norman Mclaren

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

- 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 str…

- Norman Mclaren