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.

Animation is manipulating the difference.

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

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

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

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.

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 film.