Words matter. These are the best Makoto Shinkai Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When we have a disaster in Japan, I wonder, how can we prevent our lives and traditions and history from the disaster?
People who draw tend to think they’re craftsmen, so they really want to hang onto their pens and papers, but it’s not terribly productive. To be honest with you, it’s faster and easier to start with the computer.
I was working in a gaming company, but I really wanted to make animation. I didn’t really have anything special, no special tools at my disposal, so I used what I had on hand like Photoshop, and that’s really how I started.
In daily or everyday life, I am so impressed with tiny details, like when I look up at a street lamp falling on the street, it seems to have meaning or so much information in it.
I think it is really important to not only take advantage of these tools that you have at your disposal but also to really take the time to develop ideas within yourself and think about what you want to animate, and then you can use these tools to create what you want to create.
When you’re a teenager, there are more things you don’t know than you know, and more people that you haven’t met than you have met. I felt that way when I was a teenager, and I think maybe, with my films, I’m targeting grown-ups who remember that feeling.
Miyazaki is a genius. He is the legend.
When I was young as a teenager, that was the biggest mystery in the world to me: Why don’t people connect?
As soon as I have the idea, I need to create as quickly as possible, because it’s what’s going on in society, and that’s what connects me to my audience.
When I was growing up and until I got married, I had some times when I felt a bit lonely and a little bit isolated – even after I got married.
I personally am not very interested in awards or the awards circuit.
When Ando arrives in the studio, he picks up his pen even before he gets a cup of tea, and he stays seated until the very last train at night. He hardly eats, just nibbles at little balls of rice at his desk.
I think animation can tell more than live action.
I pay attention to the things that nobody else is looking at.
The identity of Studio Ghibli movies are how the characters move. They move like live, real people.
Ghibli is about craftsmanship. They draw characters and put life in it.
I think that’s a universal theme, you know: we don’t know who we’re going to meet tomorrow. And that person might change your life entirely. There’s always that possibility, and while you’re not necessarily actively seeking it, you have that desire deep down.
You don’t want to be imitating his style. Every anime-maker is thinking, ‘I can’t be too like Miyazaki.’
When I was growing up, I didn’t have tons and tons of friends.
My life has had a lot of fun moments, but I tend to feel sadness more often.
Of course I’m happy when people mention his name and mine in the same breath. It’s like a dream. But I know they are overpraising ‘Your Name’ because I am absolutely not at Miyazaki’s level. Honestly, I really don’t want Miyazaki to see it because he will see all its flaws.
‘Your Name”s success told me movies still have the power to connect with society. As a medium, it still has a power that resonates.
I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex.
The first I paid to see with my own money was ‘Laputa Castle In The Sky.’ And I was like, wow! I really shocked by it. So I want to make movies that have a similar impact on the audience to that.
‘Your Name’ is a film created with the innate imaginations of a Japanese team and put together in a domestic medium. When such a work is imbued with Hollywood filmmaking, we may see new possibilities that we had been completely unaware of – I am looking forward to the live-action film with excited anticipation.
