Your Name's success told me movies still have the power to connect with society. As a medium, it still has a power that resonates. - Makoto Shinkai

But the thing about getting rejected is that you reflect and think and analyze about why you got turned down. You learn a lot more from stories about getting rejected than stories about becoming happy.

It’s the situations that these distant relationships create that interest me more than the distance itself.

I consider my anime as if they were children who, once grown up, are free to take their own path and personally I do not want to intrude in their lives. No father should snoop in the affairs of their children.