Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIOnce you have met someone, you never really forget them.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.
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Our lives are like the wind or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other. Then fade away.
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I don’t like games. You’re robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.
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The characters are born from repetition.
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Danger doesn’t always come from the enemy.
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I can’t stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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When I say ‘hero’, do not picture someone with strength to fight and conquer evil – because evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated. Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans.
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I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
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Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
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To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.
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Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.
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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
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Virtual reality is a denial of reality.
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I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
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As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of ‘we have no other choice.’
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