Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

“Kurosawa, who included My Neighbor Totoro on a list of his 100 favorite films, considered Miyazaki a role model for Japanese film culture: “It’s anime, but I was so moved….I cried when I watched Kiki’s Delivery Service.”
― Jessica Niebel, Hayao Miyazaki

“The film critic Roger Ebert once wrote: “I told Miyazaki I love the ‘gratuitous motion’ in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit there for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are. ‘We have a word for that in Japanese,’ [Miyazaki] said. ‘It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.”
― Jessica Niebel, Hayao Miyazaki

“The director and film critic René Clair spoke of cinéma pur, in which the allure of the filmic medium imparts an intensity that for a few moments brings the plot to a stop.”
― Jessica Niebel, Hayao Miyazaki