Hayao Miyazaki quotes

Nausicaä: Life is a winking light in the darkness. (Hayao Miyazaki)
The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos. View quote
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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. View quote
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Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do. View quote
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Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them. View quote
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If it is a dying craft we can't do anything about it. Civilisation moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era. View quote
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Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite. View quote
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world. View quote
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I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy. View quote
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Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same. View quote
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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 Miyazaki)
My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time. View quote
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I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away". View quote
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Once you have met someone, you never really forget them. View quote
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Most people depend on the internet and cellphones to survive, but what happens when they stop working? I wanted to create a mother and child who wouldn't be defeated by life without them. View quote
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Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love. View quote
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Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear. View quote
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You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two. View quote
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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. View quote
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I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive". View quote
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Do everything by hand, even when using the computer. (Hayao Miyazaki)
Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily. View quote
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I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it. View quote
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