I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII 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.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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If you’re going to retire, retire early.
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It’s not very pleasant to draw evil figures.
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We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
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Sometimes I test myself saying, ‘If I get a death sentence if I don’t make this movie, would I still make this movie?
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Virtual reality is a denial of reality.
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In the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for.
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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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All my films are all my children.
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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The villains are all parts of me.
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Problems begin the moment we’re born. We’re born with infinite possibilities, only to give up on one after another. To choose one thing means to give up another. That’s inevitable. But what can you do? That’s what it is to live.
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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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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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I don’t intentionally make deep movies.
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Reality is for people that lack imagination.
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