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

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

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

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

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.

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.

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