If you’re going to retire, retire early.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIIf you’re going to retire, retire early.
HAYAO MIYAZAKISince I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII’ve never studied psychology.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIDo everything by hand, even when using the computer.
HAYAO MIYAZAKICurrently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIThe winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It’s never unscathed.
HAYAO MIYAZAKICut off a wolf’s head and it still has the power to bite.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIThe creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
HAYAO MIYAZAKINobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIPrizes do not mean anything to me.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIProducing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
HAYAO MIYAZAKISometimes I test myself saying, ‘If I get a death sentence if I don’t make this movie, would I still make this movie?
HAYAO MIYAZAKIThe greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.
HAYAO MIYAZAKI