Browsing Topic Best Anime Quotes

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.

Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful.

My kids love anime, but I don’t show them the really graphic stuff

I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka’s and Walt Disney’s works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

I’m totally addicted to Japanese anime, and spend way, way, way too much time watching it.

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.

Even when our eyes are closed, there’s a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.

To obtain something, something of equal value must be given.

One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters are by and large made not by film studios but by broadcasting companies. They’re either extensions of popular television dramas or adaptations of manga or anime. Younger Japanese are simply not being exposed to good films. That situation needs to change.

Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy’s First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world’s one, and only, truth.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

Anime is not the end. Don’t stop believing.

I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it’s not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the ’80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I’d fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That’s part of the art form.

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

To trust so much in our devices and sync everyone’s device up – we tell people where we are, what we buy and where we shop, who we talk to – and that goes somewhere. The ghost of information technology out there, and one of the points… of the manga and anime was trusting in technology.

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

I love comic books and I love anime.

The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.

I’m part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after ‘Godzilla.’ I was absorbed with Ultraman on TV and in manga. The profession of game designer was created really recently. If it didn’t exist, I’d probably be making anime.

Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.

Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.

Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.

I have always been afraid… Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am … scared to death just treading on your shadow.

Justice will prevail!

When I was starting as an anime director I wanted to be known for great things. I never wanted to be known for some overblown toy commercial.

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

I take time to watch anime. I don’t know whether I’m allowed to, but I do it anyway.

I’d forgotten I’d done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.