I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIIn order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
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Whoever falls, hatred will breed hatred.
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Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.
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If you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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If you’re going to retire, retire early.
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The characters are born from repetition.
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What you mean by ‘peace’ is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.
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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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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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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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In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
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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’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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