Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIWhen I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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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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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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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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Our lives are like the wind or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other. Then fade away.
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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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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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Logic is using the front part of the brain, that’s all.
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Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.
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No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.
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There has never been a work of art created which didn’t somehow reflect its own time.
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I’ve never studied psychology.
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People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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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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I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.
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Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.
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