I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIProducing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.
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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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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
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Young people are surrounded by virtual things. Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it’s an old system that we can’t control.
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Yet once being born there is no turning back.
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Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.
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Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.
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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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In the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for.
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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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Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.
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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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Life is a winking light in the darkness.
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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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