Our lives are like the wind or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other. Then fade away.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIAirplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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If you’re going to retire, retire early.
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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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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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Prizes do not mean anything to me.
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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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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.
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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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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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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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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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In the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for.
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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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Yet once being born there is no turning back.
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