The Great Valley is filled with green food like this, more than you could ever eat, and more fresh, cool water than you could ever drink. It’s a wonderful, beautiful place, where we can live happily with many more of our own kind.
If they find this movie to be exciting, it will be a success in my mind. They can’t lie. Until now, I made “I wish there was such a person” leading characters. This time, however, I created a heroine who is an ordinary girl, someone with whom the audience can sympathize, someone about whom they can say, “Yes, it’s like that.” It’s very important to make it plain and unexaggerated.
Hayao Miyazaki about Chihiro’s character in SPIRITED AWAY