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In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.

Hayao Miyazaki

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
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Adult Love Trait Weapon
Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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Born Children Understand World
Logic is using the front part of the brain, that’s all.
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Brain Inspirational Logic
I never read reviews. I’m not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
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Criticism Interest Reaction Review Spectators Value
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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Believe Formation Human Important Play Power Role Story
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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Conquer Defeat Evil Fight Hero Human Natural Picture Strength
Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
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Believe Live People Spirit
First: don’t panic! Second: don’t panic! And third: did I mention not to panic?!
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Inspirational Panic
I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue.
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Appearance Boy Feature Girl Romance Rule Same
AI animation is, “is an insult to life itself.
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Animation Insult Life
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
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Age Cheap Live Movie Right
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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Clear Knowledge Person Scene Start Story Work
People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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Age Country Earthquake Experience Tsunami
We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
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Hatred Important Joy Liberation
I’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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Away Children Despair Movie Run
I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
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Business Cultural Endeavor Film

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