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"But... you can’t be Miyazaki, you can only be the second Miyazaki, and that isn’t something to aim for."
"Your Names success told me movies still have the power to connect with society. As a medium, it still has a power that resonates."
"I think animation can tell more than live action."
"If I had been born 10 years earlier, I don’t think I would be an animator."
"I think that science fiction can, by creating extreme situations and settings, draw out the essence of human relationships."
"You don’t want to be imitating his [Miyazaki] style. You’ve got to create something different, something that he hasn’t done."
"But I do want to trigger emotions like his [Miyazaki] movies triggered our emotions."
"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."
"It is a part of puberty that we just want to go somewhere far away. We only have a vague image, like behind that mountain or a place more beautiful..."
"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."
"I think most directors and people who make anime would agree that their latest film is probably the one they feel the most confident in, that they have done their best and put everything into."
"It’s the situations that these distant relationships create that interest me more than the distance itself."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.