The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIIf you’re going to retire, retire early.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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First: don’t panic! Second: don’t panic! And third: did I mention not to panic?!
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Engineers turn dreams into reality.
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You may not like what’s happening, but just accept it, and let’s try to live together.
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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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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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To young people, anime is something they incorporate into this private world.
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I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams.
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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 think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films.
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In the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for.
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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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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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No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.
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I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
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The characters are born from repetition.
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Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
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In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
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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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The villains are all parts of me.
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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 don’t intentionally make deep movies.
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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 would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.
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Life is a winking light in the darkness.
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