I’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIThere has never been a work of art created which didn’t somehow reflect its own time.
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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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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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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
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I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking – thinking about my stories for a long time.
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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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 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 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 was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams.
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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What you mean by ‘peace’ is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.
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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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The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.
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I don’t intentionally make deep movies.
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