Sometimes I test myself saying, ‘If I get a death sentence if I don’t make this movie, would I still make this movie?
HAYAO MIYAZAKIYet once being born there is no turning back.
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Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
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You always have to appeal to your audience.
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Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.
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I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
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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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I’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.
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Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.
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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
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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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In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.
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What you mean by ‘peace’ is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.
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