I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII 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’d like more of the world go back to being wild.
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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In the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for.
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The future is clear. It’s going to fall apart. What’s the use in worrying? It’s inevitable.
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Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.
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Life is a winking light in the darkness.
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Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.
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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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All my films are all my children.
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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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People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking – thinking about my stories for a long time.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don’t make message films.
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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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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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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don’t even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you’ll be flying again.
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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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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Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.
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The winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It’s never unscathed.
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You always have to appeal to your audience.
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I get inspiration from my everyday life.
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Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.
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It’s not very pleasant to draw evil figures.
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