I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIThere cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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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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I don’t intentionally make deep movies.
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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 that’s exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.
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Logic is using the front part of the brain, that’s all.
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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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The winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It’s never unscathed.
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Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.
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Whoever falls, hatred will breed hatred.
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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don’t make message films.
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Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
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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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Danger doesn’t always come from the enemy.
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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 create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
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I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films.
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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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If you’re going to retire, retire early.
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Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
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I intend to work until the day I die.
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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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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 creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
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