79 Quotes by Makoto Shinkai

As soon as I have the idea, I need to create as quickly as possible, because it's what's going on in society, and that's what connects me to my audience.

I really wish it would only take two hours to make a two-hour movie.

I personally am not very interested in awards or the awards circuit.

When you're a teenager, there are more things you don't know than you know, and more people that you haven't met than you have met. I felt that way when I was a teenager, and I think maybe, with my films, I'm targeting grown-ups who remember that feeling.

'Your Name' is a film created with the innate imaginations of a Japanese team and put together in a domestic medium. When such a work is imbued with Hollywood filmmaking, we may see new possibilities that we had been completely unaware of - I am looking forward to the live-action film with excited anticipation.

You don't want to be imitating his style. Every anime-maker is thinking, 'I can't be too like Miyazaki.'

Miyazaki has a great talent, but I really struggle every time I create a new film and am far from Miyazaki.