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On Hayao MiyazakiI told Miyazaki I love the gratuitous motion in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.We have a word for that in Japanese, he said, It's called ma. Emptiness. It's there intentionally.

Roger Ebert

On Hayao MiyazakiI told Miyazaki I love the gratuitous motion in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.We have a word for that in Japanese, he said, It's called ma. Emptiness. It's there intentionally.

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