Sometimes I test myself saying, ‘If I get a death sentence if I don’t make this movie, would I still make this movie?
HAYAO MIYAZAKILife is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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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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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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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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I intend to work until the day I die.
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There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities
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Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.
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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’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.
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I get inspiration from my everyday life.
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I never read reviews. I’m not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
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I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films.
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What you mean by ‘peace’ is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.
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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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You may not like what’s happening, but just accept it, and let’s try to live together.
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