You learn a lot more from stories about getting rejected than stories about becoming happy.

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• Makoto Shinkai:

  Of course I'm happy when people mention his name and mine in the same breath. It's like a dream. Bu

• Makoto Shinkai:

  I think that's a universal theme, you know: we don't know who we're going to meet tomorrow. And tha

• Makoto Shinkai:

  When we have a disaster in Japan, I wonder, how can we prevent our lives and traditions and history

• Makoto Shinkai:

  I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex.

• Makoto Shinkai:

  Some people say, 'Well you're a man; how do you write about women or girls when you don't know abou

• Makoto Shinkai:

  I have never really sensed any of Miyazaki's artistic influence on Ando. If there is an influence,

• Makoto Shinkai:

  When Ando arrives in the studio, he picks up his pen even before he gets a cup of tea, and he stays

• Makoto Shinkai:

  I do receive some offers for live-action, but I'm not really that interested. It's not something yo

• Makoto Shinkai:

  There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I

• Makoto Shinkai:

  I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its pure