Hayao Miyazaki lets his characters tell their own stories (Credit: AI)
\n\nThere's a moment in Spirited Away when Chihiro boards a train travelling across an endless scenery of water in the spirit world, No-Face quietly sits next to her as silhouettes of passengers zoom past the window and the landscape keeps doubling over on itself. This scene entails no drama or even plot point – regardless, it is the among the most recognisable stills from the film, its sense of stillness amid visuals of movement, carrying the weight.
\n\nA still from Spirited Away (Credit: IMDb)
\n\nFor Hayao Miyazaki, the filmmaker behind Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and My Neighbour Totoro, such moments are part of a creative process that simply happen to him, his craft being the vessel. The world-class animator is known to never start his projects with a fully resolved screenplay. Instead, he allows the very process of drawing the characters and their shifting worlds to dictate the trajectory of the plot. He rarely ever makes his mind up about what his characters are and what they'll do next; the process of breathing life into them one frame at a time, tell him intuitively instead.
\n\nIn a 2002 interview…
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