Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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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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The single difference between films for children and films for adults is that in films for children, there is always the option to start again, to create a new beginning. In films for adults, there are no ways to change things. What happened, happened.
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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I like underwater life.
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When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.
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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'd like more of the world go back to being wild.
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If you're going to retire, retire early.
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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 make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
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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 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 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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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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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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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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I've never studied psychology.
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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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Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.
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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
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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 try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.
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Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
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What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.