Makoto Shinkai Quotes

Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese animator, director, writer, producer, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer best known for directing Your Name, the highest-grossing anime film of all time and was listed by Variety as one of 10 animators to watch in 2016. Asteroid 55222 Makotoshinkai is named after him.

✵ 9. February 1973
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Famous Makoto Shinkai Quotes

“I think most directors and people who make anime would agree that their latest film is probably the one they feel the most confident in, that they have done their best and put everything into.”

Interviewed on Anime News Network https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2013-05-01/makoto-shinkai-the-garden-of-words-interview
About The Garden of Words

“It is a part of puberty that we just want to go somewhere far away. We only have a vague image, like behind that mountain or a place more beautiful…”

Interviewed on Otaku Mode https://otakumode.com/news/51a71457e918f6a32a072a6e/Interview-with-Director-Makoto-Shinkai-on-His-New-Work-ldquo-The-Garden-of-Words-rdquo-Vol-2
About The Garden of Words

“I consider my anime as if they were children who, once grown up, are free to take their own path and personally I do not want to intrude in their lives. No father should snoop in the affairs of their children.”

Interviewed on AnimeClick.it https://www.animeclick.it/news/70289-your-name-makoto-shinkai-non-e-molto-interessato-al-live-action-hollywodiano
About Your Name

“But the thing about getting rejected is that you reflect and think and analyze about why you got turned down. You learn a lot more from stories about getting rejected than stories about becoming happy.”

Interviewed on Anime Diet http://animediet.net/conventions/the-garden-of-thoughts-an-interview-with-makoto-shinkai
About The Garden of Words

Makoto Shinkai Quotes

“I think animation can tell more than live action.”

Interviewed on Complex http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2016/10/your-name-makoto-shinkai-interview/2
About Your Name

“But… you can’t be Miyazaki, you can only be the second Miyazaki, and that isn’t something to aim for.”

Interviewed on Little White Lies http://lwlies.com/interviews/makoto-shinkai-your-name/
About Your Name

“But I do want to trigger emotions like his [Miyazaki] movies triggered our emotions.”

Interviewed on The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/09/makoto-shinkai-director-anime-your-name
About Your Name

“It’s the situations that these distant relationships create that interest me more than the distance itself.”

Interviewed on the Electric Sheep magazine http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/features/2008/06/01/interview-with-makoto-shinkai/
About 5 Centimeters per Second

“Your Names success told me movies still have the power to connect with society. As a medium, it still has a power that resonates.”

Interviewed on Entertainment Weekly http://ew.com/article/2016/12/06/your-name-makoto-shinkai-interview/
About Your Name

“I think that science fiction can, by creating extreme situations and settings, draw out the essence of human relationships.”

Interviewed on Tested http://www.tested.com/art/movies/442545-2d-animation-digital-era-interview-japanese-director-makoto-shinkai/
About Your Name

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