If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.
– Norman McLaren
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
– Norman McLaren
But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.
– Norman McLaren
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.