Usually, the things that are quickly slapped together become the big hits, rather than the ones you would painstakingly deliberate on. Shinichiro Watanabe Read Quote
I loved ‘The Matrix,’ so when they asked me to do some animation relating to it, I was thrilled. Shinichiro Watanabe Read Quote
Some people compare Spike Spiegel to Dirty Harry, and they’re both antiheroes. But Spike is an extension of myself. Shinichiro Watanabe Read Quote
I was influenced by American movies of the ’60s and ’70s, especially Don Siegel’s ‘Dirty Harry’ and the films of Sam Peckinpah. And, of course, a lot of the film noir movies of the ’40s. Shinichiro Watanabe Read Quote
The anime that inspired me the most and one that I probably have influence from is the very first series of ‘Lupin the 3rd.’ I’m very drawn to ‘Enter the Dragon’ and ‘Dirty Harry,’ too. They definitely inspire me. Shinichiro Watanabe Read Quote
When you’re making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime… it’s going to lack originality and creativity, so I try to get my inspiration from different genres. Shinichiro Watanabe Read Quote
When it was released in the 80s in Japan, ‘Blade Runner’ was actually a series that influenced the Japanese media very much so. I assume that everyone in the anime industry has seen Blade Runner at some point. Shinichiro Watanabe Read Quote
When creating ‘Cowboy Bebop,’ I thought it would be more interesting if I added different types of elements together to create something that was completely new. Shinichiro Watanabe Read Quote
After I began in elementary school, I was able to go to the movies, and that was how I would spend my weekends, watching several movies one after another and almost all of them American movies. This is how I fell in love, at so young an age, with American movies and culture. Shinichiro Watanabe Read Quote
The work that has influenced me the most in my anime profession would be, of course, ‘Blade Runner.’ Shinichiro Watanabe Read Quote