We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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All my films are all my children.
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I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don’t make message films.
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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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I can’t stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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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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Logic is using the front part of the brain, that’s all.
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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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Airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.
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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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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 make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
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