Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.
HAYAO MIYAZAKISometimes I test myself saying, ‘If I get a death sentence if I don’t make this movie, would I still make this movie?
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.
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I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams.
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I think that’s exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.
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I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live.
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AI animation is, “is an insult to life itself.
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
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I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.
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Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don’t even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you’ll be flying again.
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I’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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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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Virtual reality is a denial of reality.
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People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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Yet once being born there is no turning back.
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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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