Makoto Shinkai Quotes

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and talks about all of the treasures of that time, like imagination and belief, that are inevitably lost in adulthood.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

I always cling to things that remind me of being a kid again.