Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

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  • Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

  • I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

    Source: variety.com
  • Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.

  • You should despair and run away.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.

  • Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.

  • Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.

  • I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

  • I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice that I have the mini-theater in the museum. Most of the museum visitors attend the mini-theater screenings and we've never had a complaint about the quality of the films. I'd like to continue to make films that leave the audience satisfied, but I also think it's pointless unless I offer them the kind of animation they can't get anywhere else. They're fun to do. They're short so it's less stressful.

    "Hayao Miyazaki: Governors Award Recipient Says ‘I Intend to Work Until the Day I Die’". Interview with Mark Schilling, variety.com. November 7, 2014.
  • The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

  • The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

  • Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

  • I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

  • You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.

    Source: www.midnighteye.com
  • When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.

    "A god among animators" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.
  • Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

    "Studio Ghibli hires male directors because they have a 'more idealistic' approach to fantasy than women" by Jess Denham, www.independent.co.uk. June 07, 2016.
  • I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it.

    Source: www.midnighteye.com
  • I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.

  • Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

    "The Cat Returns". Animation, Adventure, Comedy, 2002.
  • Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

    "Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki says the anime industry’s problem is that it’s full of anime fans". Golden Times Interview, en.rocketnews24.com. January 30, 2014.
  • I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.

    Source: www.midnighteye.com
  • There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.

    Source: collider.com
  • Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

    Source: www.midnighteye.com
  • Life is a winking light in the darkness.

    "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind". Manga series by Hayao Miyazaki, vol. 8, 1982-1994.
  • I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

  • If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.

    "Celebrity Chat: filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. August 7, 2009.
  • I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

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