Norman McLaren Quotes

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.

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.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.

Kung fu films have to move with the rest of the world. You couldn't keep on doing sword fights in historic films. People wanted superheroes. They wanted something fast and new.

I want to be part of movies which set benchmarks for a new kind of cinema.

Films will break barriers - and good films will travel all over India.

We want to have movies be seen. So, first and foremost, what's the world? So we can get it onto a big screen.

Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

Life change for us every single week so.. It's good but I know this aint the peak though.

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

I'm always kind of off to the next movie, and focused on making sure that the one I'm currently working on is as good as the one that's already on TV.

Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.