Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

[on the future of hand-drawn animation] I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business.

Hayao Miyazaki

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• A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Production
  • Lot
  • Animation

• My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Strange
  • Two

• I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Time
  • Different
  • Animation

• I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Hated

• Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Body
  • Create
  • Strange

• The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Doing
  • Animation

• My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strange

• It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

  

  Laura Dern
  • World
  • Say
  • Strange

• I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Why
  • Focus
  • Choose

• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wise
  • Smile
  • Rich

• The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Quality
  • Stars
  • Strange

• Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Rich
  • Pasta

• Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Heart
  • May
  • Politics

• Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Famous
  • End

• More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Rich

• It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • May
  • Sick
  • Strange

• As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Game
  • Mistake
  • Games

• In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • War
  • Peace
  • Rich

• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Rich
  • Happier

• Isn't it strange -- when you're single, all you see is couples, and when you're part of a couple, all you see are hookers.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Couple
  • Strange

• I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.

  

  S. J. Perelman

• As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Action

• [on the future of hand-drawn animation] I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Rich
  • Strange
  • Worried