Makoto Shinkai Quotes

There are no more Walt Disneys anymore.

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

Tony Scott was one of the best directors I've ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and people's lives are sometimes difficult.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I want to be remembered as iconic and different.

Terry Gilliam is one of the greatest brains I ever met.

There will only ever be one Prince.

He was definitely an original and a one-of-a-kind. Truly there was only one Prince.

I think the first older artist I related to and loved was Bowie.

I've always maintained that RD Burman and Sanjeev Kumar were my two anchors.

It is everybody's wish to work with Mani Ratnam.

You can't compare Lata Mangeshkar with anyone.

Tupac is definitely an icon. There'll never be another Tupac, so I'm not gonna ever, ever try to fill those shoes. I'm just gonna stay in my lane and be the best me that I can be.

You don't create legends out of other legends.

I don't want anybody to be like me. By the end of my career, I don't want to hear talk of another Myles Garrett.

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

There is nobody like him in the world. There is - and always will be - one Jim Rohn.

Elia Kazan - the films he made were such a big deal for me when I was growing up.

Everyone who's ever met Guillermo Del Toro knows that he's the most generous, creative, mind-bogglingly wonderful man. And I was so lucky that he had seen Storytelling and he asked me to do Hellboy. And then I watched Devil's Backbone and I was blown away.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.