Taking Things Seriously

In a rare interview with the animator, Margaret Talbot described Miyazaki as a “workaholic,” and “detail oriented to the point of obsession.”

To endure something is obviously exhausting and agonizing. But at the same time, you must also continue to hold what you regard as important close to your heart and to nurture it. Should you ever relinquish what you truly hold dear, the only path left to you will be that of a pencil-pusher

That’s the promise of depth. You get more scaffolding around language, a deeper and richer vocabulary, to describe how you feel.

When you meet someone with devotion and care for their craft, they have thinner barriers between their soul and the external world