Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIAnimators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIYou always have to appeal to your audience.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIThe love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
HAYAO MIYAZAKISince I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIMy process is thinking, thinking and thinking – thinking about my stories for a long time.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII can’t stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII 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 MIYAZAKII think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIThe winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It’s never unscathed.
HAYAO MIYAZAKINobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII 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.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIChildren understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII 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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