Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Hayao Miyazaki:
To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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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.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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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.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I'm not a collector.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I get inspiration from my everyday life.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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If you're going to retire, retire early.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'
~Hayao Miyazaki
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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.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I've never studied psychology.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I don't intentionally make deep movies.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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All my films are all my children.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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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.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I like underwater life.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.
~Hayao Miyazaki
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