Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.
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I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice that I have the mini-theater in the museum. Most of the museum visitors attend the mini-theater screenings and we've never had a complaint about the quality of the films. I'd like to continue to make films that leave the audience satisfied, but I also think it's pointless unless I offer them the kind of animation they can't get anywhere else. They're fun to do. They're short so it's less stressful.
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I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it.
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If you're going to retire, retire early.
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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
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Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.
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What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.
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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 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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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.
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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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I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
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When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
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Well, yes. 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.
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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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I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".
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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
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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.
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I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.
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I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.
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I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.
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Engineers turn dreams into reality.
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I've never studied psychology.