Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
HAYAO MIYAZAKILife is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIIt is important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIIn order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIYet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIThe characters are born from repetition.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIYou always have to appeal to your audience.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIProblems 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.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIIn the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIAs humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of ‘we have no other choice.’
HAYAO MIYAZAKIWhen I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
HAYAO MIYAZAKII’ve never studied psychology.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIIn this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIHumans have both the urge to create and destroy.
HAYAO MIYAZAKIPeople in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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