Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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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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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
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I've never studied psychology.
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
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Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
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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.
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Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
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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!
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All my films are all my children.
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Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.
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Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.
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See with eyes unclouded by hate.
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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. I could always do something else if I got sick of it, like draw manga, or make my own films. I found it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I'd like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
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Engineers turn dreams into reality.
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Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.
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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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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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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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What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.
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In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.
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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.
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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.
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I get inspiration from my everyday life.