Quotes from Masashi Kishimoto

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me.

Listen.. to your motor-mouth mother..... Lovely Minato said

There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara

Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

It's because we help out when they're in trouble that we can count on them to come running when we need it.-Shikamaru Nara

You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.

Well.. Is that all you've got?.. I hope not..cuz you haven't finished entertaining me yet.. -Gaara to Rock Lee during the Chunin preliminary

Live your life so that you'll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.

I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want to use the same effects or technique.

The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve that kind of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather difficult to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way... Run, and cling to life, and then some day, when you have the same eyes as I do, come before me

I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.

Sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life-Kakashi Sensei

One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You'll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can't stay kids forever."- Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)

Shut up or I'll kill you.

All things that have form eventually decay. -Orochimaru