Sasori, your strength came because of your soul, not in spite of it... You were supposed to be a a top-class ninja puppeteer, not a worthless nobody who lets someone else pull the strings. - Kankurou (Naruto Ch 518)
Masashi KishimotoHidan: That was pitiful! What happened there, buddy? Kakuzu: You should talk. I wasn't the one who fell for a shadow clone! Hidan: Ahaha, right. You saw that?
Masashi KishimotoA soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive. --Gaara
Masashi KishimotoThose who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.
Masashi KishimotoI 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.
Masashi Kishimoto