Norman McLaren Quotes

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.

What was old can be brought back new, and I bring that to the table. I bring mannerisms, facials, body language, positioning.

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

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

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

The wheel is come full circle.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

I do hope to bring Jane Whitefield back before too long.

Comeback is a good word, man.

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.

Everything does go in a circle.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.