Sublime

What really makes me mad about most TV anime, to the extent that I have watched it, is that the shows don’t have any sort of purifying or cathartic effect at all. I really can’t stand them. I think they don’t have any respect for real humanity.

Pixar’s determination to avoid clichés pushes its stories and characters to more interesting and exciting places than you’d expect.

Minha meta sempre havia sido criar na Pixar uma cultura que durasse mais do que seus fundadores – Steve, John Lasseter e eu.

Sequences that weren’t particularly interesting were increasingly regarded as a way of giving the staff a bit of breathing room in their tough schedules.

The scene is filled with a painfully beautiful tension and sense of presence. The instant I saw this scene I knew Ikiru was a film that had to be viewed with utmost respect.

My Neighbor Totoro,

You could also lump Steven Spielberg and Yasujiro Ozu together as “great directors.”

Nowadays, when telling old fables, it almost seems as though the old fairy tales have been defanged; it’s almost as if Momotarō the Peach Boy goes to Onigashima Island to destroy the demons, and as soon as he lands the demons surrender. What do you think of this trend? MIYAZAKI: Right after the end of World War II, the old children’s fairy tales—su