I don’t intentionally make deep movies.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIWe depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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Danger doesn’t always come from the enemy.
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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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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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Our lives are like the wind or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other. Then fade away.
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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 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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There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities
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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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You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.
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I can’t stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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Airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.
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I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
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The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
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In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
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Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.
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