“Because of fear of being rejected or disliked, people turn to anime characters or idols that pose no personal conflict.”
Rika Kayama
“Why put fears in people's hearts? Go home!”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
Albert Einstein
“Because of fear of being rejected or disliked, people turn to anime characters or idols that pose no personal conflict. But there is a danger.... Otaku who live in the fantasy world of anime often give little thought to how they may look to others.”
“Because of fear of being rejected or disliked, people turn to anime characters or idols that pose no personal conflict. But there is a danger. ... Otaku who live in the fantasy world of anime often give little thought to how they may look to others.”
“Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I don't know that I had any particular "influence," but when I came into the business my idols were people like John Ford and Willy Wyler and Howard Hawkes, later on Joseph Mankiewicz and others like that. But I don't know that I picked up, necessarily, anything. Of course Orson was a big influence.”
Robert Wise