I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIDo everything by hand, even when using the computer.
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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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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It is important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.
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Our lives are like the wind or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other. Then fade away.
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Young people are surrounded by virtual things. Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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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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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking – thinking about my stories for a long time.
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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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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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To young people, anime is something they incorporate into this private world.
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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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I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
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I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live.
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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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I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.
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