Quotes by Makoto Shinkai - Page 1

When I was little the sky was closer.
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Littles
Sky
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I think animation can tell more than live action.
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Animation
Live Action
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I pay attention to the things that nobody else is looking at.
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Attention
Pay
Pay Attention
Nobody Else
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When I was growing up, I didn't have tons and tons of friends.
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Tons
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I personally am not very interested in awards or the awards circuit.
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Awards
Circuit
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I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.
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This World
Want
World
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Ghibli is about craftsmanship. They draw characters and put life in it.
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Craftsmanship
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I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex.
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Countryside
Tokyo
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My life has had a lot of fun moments, but I tend to feel sadness more often.
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Sadness
Life Fun My Life
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I think love isn't doomed, of course, but in real life, love doesn't always work out.
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Doomed
Real Life
Work Out
Life Love Work
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You learn a lot more from stories about getting rejected than stories about becoming happy.
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Rejected
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The identity of Studio Ghibli movies are how the characters move. They move like live, real people.
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Real People
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You don't want to be imitating his style. Every anime-maker is thinking, 'I can't be too like Miyazaki.'
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Imitating
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Miyazaki has a great talent, but I really struggle every time I create a new film and am far from Miyazaki.
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Great Talent
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I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.
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Film
Scripts
Films
Originally
Purest
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I think it is one of the common themes for many Japanese people to choose where to live: Tokyo or their hometown.
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Hometown
Tokyo
Japanese
Japanese People
Themes
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When we have a disaster in Japan, I wonder, how can we prevent our lives and traditions and history from the disaster?
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Disaster
Japan
Prevent
Traditions
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When I made 'Voices of a Distant Star,' I wanted to make money from making that movie, of course, but that wasn't my major reason.
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Movie
Reason
Wanted
Star
Course
Distant
Major
Voices
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'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.
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Medium
Resonates
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I do receive some offers for live-action, but I'm not really that interested. It's not something you can just try out and give it a go.
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Offers
Try Go Something
Receive
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I have never really sensed any of Miyazaki's artistic influence on Ando. If there is an influence, it's more in his attitude to his work.
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Sensed
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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.
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Isolated
Lonely
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I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.
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Growing Up
Mean
One Day
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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.
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Details
Everyday
Everyday Life
Impressed
Information
Seems
Tiny
Life Look I Am
Daily
Falling
Street
Lamp
Meaning
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When we were doing 'Five Centimeters Per Second,' at that time, Japan was in an era when it felt nothing would ever change, so I wanted to make a movie that reflected that feeling.
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Japan
Per
Reflected
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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.
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Shocked
Sky
Wow
Castle
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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.
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Picks
Rice
Tea
Cup
Desk
Eats
Hardly
Pen
Seated
Stays
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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.
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Faster
Papers
Pens
Craftsmen
Terribly
Onto
To Be Honest
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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.
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Animation
Gaming
Photoshop
Special
Tools
Used
Wanted
Disposal
Working
Hand
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I am from the countryside, very rural countryside, and I moved to Tokyo when I was 18 and have been living first-ever since. So yes, I am a city guy, but sometimes I sort of feel there's another me in a parallel world, still in the countryside.
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Countryside
Tokyo
World Me City
Parallel
Rural
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It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.
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Believe
Cutting
Lying
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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.
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Remember People Way
Grown-Ups
More People
Targeting
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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.
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Deep Down
Possibility
Seeking
Life Change Always
Actively
Entirely
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There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about how they would work as an anime. But I do believe that those are great books because they work best as novels, or great manga work best in that form.
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Anime
Form
Love Best Work
Books
Read
Loads
Manga
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I see why now Tohno-kun is different from the others. Like the rocket shooting off into space, on the loneliest journey to the far end of the solar system. Because he's always looking at something beyond me. He can never see me. I cried myself to sleep, thinking of him.
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Journey
Sleep
Thinking
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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.
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Flaws
Absolutely Not
I Am Your People
Breath
Mention
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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.
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Tools
Time Yourself Your
Time Yourself Important
Animate
Disposal
Take Advantage
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'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.
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Anticipation
Filmmaking
Innate
Looking Forward
New Possibilities
Work Together Your
Domestic
Imaginations
Japanese
Medium
Possibilities
Unaware
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Some people say, 'Well you're a man; how do you write about women or girls when you don't know about them?' Well, I've got my imagination, and I can write about women. Yes, I'll never be pregnant and give birth to children, but I can imagine a bit of what it's like. When you create characters, it's just about making them really real to people.
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Birth
Pregnant
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When I was working at the game company, I wasn't just doing graphic design, I was doing the entire product management, so I would do the graphic design, I would create the advertisements, even the catch copies. I would figure out what kind of packaging and design of the packaging, so I was basically doing total product management at that time.
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Copies
Graphic
Graphic Design
Management
Packaging
Advertisement
Catch
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