Japan
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Japan
It may sound trite when I say that I make animation to entertain children, but it is not trite at all. I certainly do not make animated films just so they will be popular with children. I try to create what I wanted to see when I was a child, or what I believe my own children want to see. We have all heard folktales. You can tell when you read them
... See moreHayao Miyazaki • Starting Point: 1979-1996
It’s because you are making the world complicated. YOUTH: I am? PHILOSOPHER: None of us live in an objective world, but instead in a subjective world that we ourselves have given meaning to. The world you see is different from the one I see, and it’s impossible to share your world with anyone else.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
ONE CAN STUMBLE INTO A LABYRINTH
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
The Japanese have a nice way of putting it: “The day you cease to travel, you will have arrived.”
J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
The methods and directions a writer takes in order to supplement himself becomes part of that writer’s individuality, what makes him special.