quotes about Anime
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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.
-- Akira Toriyama -
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff
-- Brad Bird -
I'm totally addicted to Japanese anime and spend way, way, way too much time watching it.
-- Connor JessupSource : "Meet Falling Skies' Connor Jessup". Cosmogirl Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 17, 2011.
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I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
-- David Ogden StiersSource : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
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Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.
-- Hiromu Arakawa -
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.
-- Hiromu Arakawa -
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
-- M. Night Shyamalan -
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When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.
-- Masashi Kishimoto -
The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.
-- Morinosuke Kawaguchi -
I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'
-- Nicolas Cage -
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.
-- Quentin Tarantino -
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Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a hundred?" When she looked blank, he sighed. "What took it down, anime, or the Jeopardy reference?
-- Rachel Caine -
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.
-- Ralph Bakshi -
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.
-- Takashi MurakamiSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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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.
-- Tite Kubo -
I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
-- Yaya HanSource : "Cosplay's Wonder Woman: Yaya Han Leads 'Heroes Of Cosplay'". Interview with Aaron Sagers, www.mtv.com. August 13, 2013.
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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.
-- Hirokazu KoreedaSource : Source: therumpus.net
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[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in the Southern States, bubblegum pop from the sixties, torch songs from the forties, undersea caves where B-movie octopi grapple with men in loincloths, sacred groves of pink anime dryads, Victorian fairy paintings executed by gentlemen in lunatic asylums and so on.
-- Quentin S. Crisp -
Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.
-- Steven Blum -
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.
-- Steven Blum -
The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.
-- Morinosuke Kawaguchi -
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The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.
-- Satoshi TajiriSource : "The Ultimate Game Freak". Time Magazine Interview (Volume 154, No. 20), content.time.com. November 22, 1999.
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
-- Takashi MurakamiSource : "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. January 11, 2013.
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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.
-- Yoshiyuki TominoSource : Source: www.animemaru.com