I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIIn 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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As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of ‘we have no other choice.’
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Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.
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Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
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Virtual reality is a denial of reality.
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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
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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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Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.
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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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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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You may not like what’s happening, but just accept it, and let’s try to live together.
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The winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It’s never unscathed.
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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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All my films are all my children.
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The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.
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Yet once being born there is no turning back.
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There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities
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I get inspiration from my everyday life.
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I’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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Engineers turn dreams into reality.
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The villains are all parts of me.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking – thinking about my stories for a long time.
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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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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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People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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Whoever falls, hatred will breed hatred.
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