Motion Picture Art Quotes

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.

There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.

Film is anti-language.

Very few people view stop motion the way we do. We really try to use it - and animation generally - as a powerful visual medium by which you can tell virtually any kind of story in any genre.

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.