Sublime

the animator must fabricate a lie that seems so real viewers will think the world depicted might possibly exist.

in Japan and other East Asian countries, it seems that we have some sort of special sense that things should be represented by lines.

The economic conditions are tough, because the theater hardly functions as a market these days, but I’m not ready to give up … I want to create the sort of film that a young boy sees in a theater and then goes home from so amazed he’s temporarily rendered speechless; he doesn’t say anything to anyone out of fear that he’ll dilute the experience. I

Children watching it might forget the story completely and remember only one certain scene, as if it were a beautiful, shiny treasure. Even if they were to see it again as adults and find it didn’t really amount to much, they would still want it to be the way they remembered it. This is probably because it is something that has been personally expe