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
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. – 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
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl. – James Barrie