We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
More Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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I’ve never studied psychology.
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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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Yet once being born there is no turning back.
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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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There has never been a work of art created which didn’t somehow reflect its own time.
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Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.
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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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I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live.
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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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The characters are born from repetition.
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When I say ‘hero’, do not picture someone with strength to fight and conquer evil – because evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated. Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans.
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All my films are all my children.
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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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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People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed 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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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
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To young people, anime is something they incorporate into this private world.
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I can’t stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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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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I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
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I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films.
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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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Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
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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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