I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
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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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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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There has never been a work of art created which didn’t somehow reflect its own time.
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.
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Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.
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It’s not very pleasant to draw evil figures.
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I’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films.
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There cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans.
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I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it’s an old system that we can’t control.
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Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.
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I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue.
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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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