This The Ghost in the Shell article

< The Ghost in the Shell director says he prayed to an imaginary Masamune Shirow and sought “spiritual assimilation” with him to faithfully adapt the manga  - AUTOMATON WEST>

Kind of funny since the author is very well still alive hahaha

"I refuse to treat anything depicted in the original as if it never happened. Even if something doesn’t appear on screen due to practical constraints like runtime, I ensure it still ‘exists’ somewhere outside the frame." <- literally "Spiritual assimilation" hahahaha