Masashi Kishimoto
I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve that kind of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather difficult to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white.Collection: Cool
I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want to use the same effects or technique.Collection: Movies
Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.
I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.
Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones.
Live your life so that you’ll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.Collection: Regret
A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.Collection: Smile
In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.Collection: Selfish
...Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?Collection: Reality
It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself. You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.Collection: Real
To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward.Collection: Coward
It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.Collection: Sasuke
forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to failCollection: Forgiving
When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.Collection: Anime
People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?Collection: Mean
If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.Collection: Fighting
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.Collection: Success
Darkness... When everything that you know and love is taken from you so harshly, all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge. And no one can save you.Collection: Revenge
In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?Collection: Reality
I'm just being selfish..... I'm here on my own free will... I used to always cry and give up... I nearly went the wrong way... But you... You showed me the right way... I was always chasing you... Wanting to overtake you... I just wanted to walk with you... I wanted to be with you... You changed me! Your smile saved me! So I'm not afraid to die protecting you!!! Because I - Love You.Collection: Giving Up
There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru NaraCollection: Patience
We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?Collection: Anime
The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate.Collection: Running
Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. But knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us human.Collection: Hurt
Give up trying to make me give upCollection: Giving Up
Looks can be decievingCollection: Looks
n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.Collection: World
When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away.Collection: Sky
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.Collection: Strong
People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.Collection: Pain
Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.Collection: Strong
There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn't let you give upCollection: Giving Up
Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.Collection: Art
But you... You helped me find my way and take the correct path, Naruto... I always chased after you...wanting to catch up...wanting to walk together with you forever... I want to be at your side, always... You changed me, Naruto! Your smiling face saved me! And that's way I'm not afraid to die, defending you! Because... I love you.Collection: Love You
I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me.Collection: Mother
You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~DanzoCollection: Roots
So that's it? Your just going to give up?! After everything that has happened, your not going to even try?! You still don't know..... what truly matters.Collection: Giving Up
And so they fought. And so they laughed. Friends. And before they knew it, They were inseparable.Collection: Inseparable
I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.Collection: People
For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless." -Maito Gai (Naruto)Collection: Believe
You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.Collection: Hurt
I'm Kakashi Hatake. Things I like and things I hate… I don't feel like telling you that. My dreams for the future… never really thought about it. As for my hobbies… I have lots of hobbies.Collection: Dream
Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.Collection: Dream
Hidan: Hey, look at that, it's my headband! You went to the trouble of picking it up and keeping for me? I'm touched. You're a pretty nice guy, Kakuzu, you knwo that? Kakuzu: Shut up. Let's go. Hidan: Let me put it on at least! Okay, I'm coming. Admit it, you like me a little, doncha? Kakuzu: Either you shut up, or I'll kill you. Hidan: Haha, you're embarrassed! I understand.Collection: Nice
Kabuto: It's always easier said than done. I just said that this jutsu had no weaknesses or risk... Itachi: Every jutsu has its weakness. This jutsu's weakness and risk is...the existence of me!Collection: Risk
Including a mention of your impressive record....The man who had penetrated and copied over a thousand techniques.. Kakashi the mirror ninja.Collection: Men
Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?Collection: Reality
If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.Collection: Smart
The weaker you are the louder you bark. -TentenCollection: Strength
I never go back on my word! That's my nindo, my ninja way!Collection: Way