Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIThe villains are all parts of me.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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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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All my films are all my children.
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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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I can’t stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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Danger doesn’t always come from the enemy.
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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 think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films.
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The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.
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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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Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.
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Yet once being born there is no turning back.
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I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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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.
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People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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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’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
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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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I don’t intentionally make deep movies.
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I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue.
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You always have to appeal to your audience.
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If you’re going to retire, retire early.
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Prizes do not mean anything to me.
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In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way.
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