As well as Kurosawa, Anderson was also influenced by Studio Ghibli creator Hayao Miyazaki. Anderson explained how Miyazaki “brings the detail and also the silences I think. With Miyazaki you get nature and you get moments of peace, a kind of rhythm that is not in the American animation tradition so much. That inspired us quite a lot. … We found many places where we had to pull back from what we were doing musically because we wanted the movie to be quiet. That came from Miyazaki.”