Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIWe live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don’t even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you’ll be flying again.
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Danger doesn’t always come from the enemy.
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It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
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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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Life is a winking light in the darkness.
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Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking – thinking about my stories for a long time.
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Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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First: don’t panic! Second: don’t panic! And third: did I mention not to panic?!
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I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
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The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.
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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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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 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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