Anime Quote by David Ogden Stiers

If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk…

— John Lasseter

I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.

— Keith Johnstone

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

— Alex Cox

I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

— Alessandro Nivola

I really love 'Spirited Away,' it's just got an amazingly haunting atmosphere, and the technique is so non-Hollywood CGI - it's really refreshing to…

— Russell Mael

If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.

— Omari Hardwick

Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I've watched them since I was very young, and I've been greatly shaped by them.

— Mitski

I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.

— John Candy

I didn't do that one great glorious film by which I'd be remembered forever.

— Simi Garewal

If you're a director and you pay homage to Japan, you're definitely going to remember what you've learned from watching the Japanese masters' films.

— Alexandre Desplat

Before 'The Last Samurai,' I couldn't believe I could do that. I didn't think I would be able to explain myself and my feelings…

— Ken Watanabe

I took a lot of influences from Studio Ghibli, which is the Japanese animation studio that made 'Spirited Away' and 'Castle in the Sky.'…

— Jamie Hewlett