Yet once being born there is no turning back.
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.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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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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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 think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it’s an old system that we can’t control.
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I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.
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It is important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.
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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’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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First: don’t panic! Second: don’t panic! And third: did I mention not to panic?!
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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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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
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I intend to work until the day I die.
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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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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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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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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I don’t like games. You’re robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.
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I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
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Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.
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Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
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Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
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See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”
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Sometimes I test myself saying, ‘If I get a death sentence if I don’t make this movie, would I still make this movie?
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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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There has never been a work of art created which didn’t somehow reflect its own time.
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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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Engineers turn dreams into reality.
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