Quotes About Japanese Animation

#1. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!

Hayao Miyazaki

#2. 'Toonami' was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.

Steven Blum

#3. Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

Peter Drucker

#4. Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it.

Don Hertzfeldt

#5. I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

Robert Pinsky

#6. The question that surrounds lovemaking is, "Did you cum?" and the unasked question beneath that is, "Am I all right?

Sam Keen

#7. When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

Neill Blomkamp

#8. Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George F. Will

#9. All of the jinn had refused to manifest a mattress for him, but the skag lay on the stone floor as though it were a king's bed.

Heather Demetrios

#10. Japanese animation tends to need high budgets. If I have a high budget for a movie, I usually make animation, but if the project has a low budget, then I would ask the producer to consider live action.

Mamoru Oshii

#11. Make yourself say the words, Gabby, no matter how they sound,

Teresa E. Harris

#12. I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

Guido Palau

#13. If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#14. But the man of independent feeling, except he be thus your friend, will not unlikely resent your compassion, while the beggar will accept it chiefly as a pledge for something more to be got from you; and so it will tend to keep him in beggary.

George MacDonald

#15. The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.

Takashi Murakami

#16. Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.

Ayya Khema

#17. Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

Tommy Lee Jones