Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIThere has never been a work of art created which didn’t somehow reflect its own time.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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Engineers turn dreams into reality.
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I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
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Reality is for people that lack imagination.
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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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It is important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.
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Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.
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Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.
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It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
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Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.
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I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don’t make message films.
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I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.
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In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
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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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Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.
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Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
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Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
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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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In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.
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Life is a winking light in the darkness.
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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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When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
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Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
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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 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.
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I’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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