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I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
Hayao Miyazaki -
I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!
Hayao Miyazaki -
Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
Hayao Miyazaki -
Reality is for people that lack imagination.
Hayao Miyazaki -
There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand.
Hayao Miyazaki -
I've never studied psychology.
Hayao Miyazaki -
Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
Hayao Miyazaki
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I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.
Hayao Miyazaki -
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.
Hayao Miyazaki -
Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
Hayao Miyazaki -
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
Hayao Miyazaki -
Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.
Hayao Miyazaki -
The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.
Hayao Miyazaki
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If you're going to retire, retire early.
Hayao Miyazaki -
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.
Hayao Miyazaki -
Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.
Hayao Miyazaki -
Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.
Hayao Miyazaki -
Life is a winking light in the darkness.
Hayao Miyazaki -
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.
Hayao Miyazaki