100+ Hayao Miyazaki Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Danger doesn’t always come from the enemy.
HAYAO MIYAZAKI

Come Danger Deep Enemy One Liner
The characters are born from repetition.
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Born Character One Liner Repetition
I never read reviews. I’m not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
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Criticism Interest Reaction Review Spectators Value
I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films.
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Animation Bore Disappear Film Interesting
As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of ‘we have no other choice.’
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Arrogance Choice Growth Human Lose Quite Sorrow Strong
I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
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Fascist One Liner Pig
I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
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Business Cultural Endeavor Film
The characters are born from repetition.
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Born Character One Liner Repetition
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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Bankrupt Development Fake Grass Life Modern Poor Thin Wild
I’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.
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Away Children Despair Movie Run
Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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Born Children Understand World
Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don’t even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you’ll be flying again.
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Business Fly Motivational Pretty Scenary Stop Thinking Try
Our lives are like the wind or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other. Then fade away.
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Away Broken Heart Deep Each Other Fade Live Sound Wind
We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
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Hatred Important Joy Liberation
If you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.
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Family Hard Life Live Release Social Subconscious
The winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It’s never unscathed.
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Civilization Eventually Industry Time Tool Wind
First: don’t panic! Second: don’t panic! And third: did I mention not to panic?!
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Inspirational Panic
There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities
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Life Thinking
I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
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Children Convey Life Live Want Worth
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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Beautiful Encounter Existence Hatred Life Live Possible Wonderful Worth
There are all kinds of values within the films but I don’t make message films.
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Film Message Value
I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
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Extend House Time Travel Vacation
Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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Creation Deep Destory Human One Liner Urge
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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Birthday Give Up Inevitable Infinite Moments Possiblity Problem
When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
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Creation Evil Start Villain
People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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Age Country Earthquake Experience Tsunami
The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
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Adult Love Trait Weapon

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