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.
HAYAO MIYAZAKISome people spend their lives interested only in themselves.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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Cut off a wolf’s head and it still has the power to bite.
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In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.
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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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Yet once being born there is no turning back.
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Whoever falls, hatred will breed hatred.
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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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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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We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
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The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
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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 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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As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of ‘we have no other choice.’
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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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Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.
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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’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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I get inspiration from my everyday life.
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Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.
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All my films are all my children.
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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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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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Logic is using the front part of the brain, that’s all.
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I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
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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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