Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.
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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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I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".
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I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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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.
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I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.
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The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.
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Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.
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The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.
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People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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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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Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.
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[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.
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You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.
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You should despair and run away.
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Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.
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Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.
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At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.
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No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.
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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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Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.