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

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 stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

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

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

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

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

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.