“You know, eating's much more important than most people think. There comes a time in your life when you've just got to have something super-delicious. And when you're standing at that crossroads your whole life can change, depending on which one you go into - the good restaurant or the awful one.”
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“I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much.”
“I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.”
“The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.”
“In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms.”
“I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.”
“The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.”
“I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.”
“There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand.”
“When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me.”
“Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.”
“You can't plan to reach another person on a deep level, it just happens. So those are the moments that I think I really live for.”
“Music is, I think, the best way to... not forget, but to just escape for a moment.”
“I don't really know that I really have an opinion that I think people need to hear.”
“I think my core values are all about family and just at the end of the day, coming home and knowing that I'm happy being the person that I am - and that doesn't come without struggles, but to me success is just being able to go home and feel like you connected with somebody.”
“You don’t go to a show because you think someone in the band is hot.”
“I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know?”
“I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.”
“I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.”
“Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.”