Makoto Shinkai famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I still don't know what it really means to grow up. However, if I happen to meet you, one day in the future, by then, I want to become someone you can be proud to know.
-- Makoto Shinkai

#Growing Up #Mean #One Day
I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.
-- Makoto Shinkai

#World #Want #This World
It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.
-- Makoto Shinkai

#Lying #Believe #Cutting
I see why now Tohno-kun is different from the others. Like the rocket shooting off into space, on the loneliest journeyï»¿ to the far end of the solar system. Because he's always looking at something beyond me. He can never see me. I cried myself to sleep, thinking of him.
-- Makoto Shinkai

#Sleep #Thinking #Journey
When I was little the sky was closer.
-- Makoto Shinkai

#Sky #Littles

Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.
Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Makoto Shinkai famous quotes

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