I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIWhen I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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I’ve never studied psychology.
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In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
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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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We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
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I can’t stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way.
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In the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for.
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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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Danger doesn’t always come from the enemy.
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The characters are born from repetition.
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Cut off a wolf’s head and it still has the power to bite.
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The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
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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 find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
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You may not like what’s happening, but just accept it, and let’s try to live together.
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