Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIThere are all kinds of values within the films but I don’t make message films.
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I think that’s exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.
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Whoever falls, hatred will breed hatred.
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I don’t intentionally make deep movies.
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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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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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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking – thinking about my stories for a long time.
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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’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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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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The future is clear. It’s going to fall apart. What’s the use in worrying? It’s inevitable.
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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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I never read reviews. I’m not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
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All my films are all my children.
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The characters are born from repetition.
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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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Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
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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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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 get inspiration from my everyday life.
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We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
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As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of ‘we have no other choice.’
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There cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans.
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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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Logic is using the front part of the brain, that’s all.
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Life is a winking light in the darkness.
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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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