Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIIn this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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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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Engineers turn dreams into reality.
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In the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for.
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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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It’s not very pleasant to draw evil figures.
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I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
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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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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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Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.
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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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If you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.
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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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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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Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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