“The film critic Roger Ebert once wrote: “I told Miyazaki I love the ‘gratuitous motion’ in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit there 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,’ [Miyazaki] said. ‘It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.” EmptinessMotionHayao MiyazakiRoger Ebert Book:Hayao Miyazaki Source: Hayao Miyazaki