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.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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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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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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I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
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Danger doesn’t always come from the enemy.
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All my films are all my children.
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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’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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We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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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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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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Logic is using the front part of the brain, that’s all.
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Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
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AI animation is, “is an insult to life itself.
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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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