It is important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.
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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In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
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The villains are all parts of me.
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I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams.
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Life is a winking light in the darkness.
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Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.
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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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See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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If you’re going to retire, retire early.
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We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
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I don’t like games. You’re robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.
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When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
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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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The characters are born from repetition.
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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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Our lives are like the wind or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other. Then fade away.
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I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
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Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
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To young people, anime is something they incorporate into this private world.
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I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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First: don’t panic! Second: don’t panic! And third: did I mention not to panic?!
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Cut off a wolf’s head and it still has the power to bite.
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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
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Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.
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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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