If you’re going to retire, retire early.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIProducing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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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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I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
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I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.
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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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When I say ‘hero’, do not picture someone with strength to fight and conquer evil – because evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated. Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans.
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.
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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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The characters are born from repetition.
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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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I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
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We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
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Engineers turn dreams into reality.
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First: don’t panic! Second: don’t panic! And third: did I mention not to panic?!
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