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for me shows like Utena and Evangelion lead me to watch classic films like Tarkovsky, Griffith, Godard, Flaherty, Fellini, Bresson, Bunuel, Bergman, Tarr, Kieslowski, Kurosawa, Ozu, Kobayashi, etc in an effort to find better artistic works. I'd consider anime to have been extremely valuable in forming my current taste and exposing me to what art could really mean to me.