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. Makoto Shinkai Read Quote
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. Makoto Shinkai Read Quote
You don’t want to be imitating his style. Every anime-maker is thinking, ‘I can’t be too like Miyazaki.’ Makoto Shinkai Read Quote
When we have a disaster in Japan, I wonder, how can we prevent our lives and traditions and history from the disaster? Makoto Shinkai Read Quote
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. Makoto Shinkai Read Quote
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. Makoto Shinkai Read Quote
I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex. Makoto Shinkai Read Quote
