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I asked one of the directors, ‘Everybody says that Miyazaki was one of the greatest animation directors ever. “All the animators had pirated versions of Ghibli’s art books on their desks and little Totoros on their desks, and they were very willing to talk about Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. They even ask, ‘Could you tell us about your film?’ You know what I mean? ‘Can you tell us about your film’? So you haven’t seen it and you don’t have any questions? Is that what you’re saying? That’s how a lot of the interviews go.” … A lot of the interviews are pretty much the same. So especially at what they called ‘caravans’-publicity caravans to promote the film-you would get people coming in who had heard the name but had no idea what he did, and the questions they asked him were, I would have to say, insulting. “The problem was that a lot of people know that Hayao Miyazaki is famous, but they don’t exactly know what he’s famous for. You would go, ‘Wow, this is perfect,’ and they would go, ‘Let’s do another two, just in case.'”

He would go, ‘No, I can do it better.’ And a lot of the people who did voices for us were like that. We had Patrick Stewart do a voice in one of the films, and he would do a line just amazing, just perfect. … A lot of the actors surprise you in a lot of ways. I hate to say it, but it costs money to do those lines over and over until you get them perfect. So that’s one thing, is you get the talent. Those people are just unbelievably talented. “When we started using Pixar people to do the dubs, the level just went way up. Geek's Guide to the Galaxy We Need More Movies Where the Sharks Win Miyazaki really was going to be making this himself, which he was.” I think she just wanted to be reassured that Mr. In the end we didn’t end up talking much about the work itself. … She ended up showing me around Bristol, which is incredibly interesting, especially in the area where she lived. People who write novels are generally a little reluctant to give over their works to filmmakers, because they’re not sure how they’ll be treated.

Fortunately she knew the work of Hayao Miyazaki, so it was a little bit easier. “Part of my job at Ghibli was to get the rights to make the movies in the first place, so I went to Bristol, where Diana Wynne Jones lived when she was alive, for the final level of negotiations. And check out some highlights from the discussion below. Listen to the complete interview with Steve Alpert in Episode 422 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). “It was him and me against the Miramax people on a lot of things, because they really wanted to change the film, and Neil was more respectful of the original filmmakers’ wishes.” “When we did the English dubbed version of Princess Mononoke with Miramax, Miramax hired Neil Gaiman to write the screenplay,” Alpert says. Le Guin, and working with Neil Gaiman on the English language version of Princess Mononoke.

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“But he said, ‘Look, just tell me what time I can do the interview and I’m coming down.’ And he had said something about, ‘I saw the movie with the space aliens and the boy riding the tiger,’ and none of that was in the film.”Īlpert also traveled extensively, negotiating contracts with fantasy authors such as Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula K. “Miyazaki wasn’t going to be in the country, and it wouldn’t have been possible to do the interview,” Alpert says. In particular he remembers a phone call from a pushy New York Times reporter who demanded an interview with Miyazaki. I don’t think anybody would ever dream of trying to emulate it or duplicate it, but it worked for him.”Īs the company’s only native English speaker, Alpert often found himself acting as impromptu press agent. “Creative people don’t necessarily follow the accepted pathways,” Alpert says. This atmosphere led to an impressive string of international hits, but also strained nerves due to Miyazaki’s habit of waiting until the last minute to write endings for his movies. Alpert describes Studio Ghibli as a community devoted to artistic excellence, where genius animation director Hayao Miyazaki had total creative control.