Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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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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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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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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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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Reality is for people that lack imagination.
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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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I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
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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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The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make foregrounds that don't quite fit with my backgrounds, I never waste it and try to find the best use for it.
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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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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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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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You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.
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I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
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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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It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.
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I like underwater life.
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If you're going to retire, retire early.
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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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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.