Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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Hayao Miyazaki Quotes & Sayings
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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
Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Reality is for people that lack imagination.
— Hayao Miyazaki
The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Life is a winking light in the darkness.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.
— Helen McCarthy
The winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It's never unscathed.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love.
— John Lasseter
I get inspiration from my everyday life.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.
— Hayao Miyazaki
You should despair and run away.
— Hayao Miyazaki
What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Jiji: [after hearing that Kiki plans on leaving town for her witch training] I'm going to put my paws together and pray that you're not serious!
— Hayao Miyazaki
When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
— Hayao Miyazaki
All my films are all my children.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.
— Hayao Miyazaki
No matter how many WEAPONS you have, no matter how great your TECHNOLOGY might be, the world cannot live without LOVE.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.
— Hayao Miyazaki
We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I'm not a collector.
— Hayao Miyazaki
If you're going to retire, retire early.
— Hayao Miyazaki
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
Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
— Hayao Miyazaki
In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I like underwater life.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
— Hayao Miyazaki
We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Our lives are like the wind ... or like sounds.
We come into being, resonate with each other ...
Then fade away — Hayao Miyazaki
We come into being, resonate with each other ...
Then fade away — Hayao Miyazaki
We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
— Hayao Miyazaki
People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".
— Hayao Miyazaki
Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.
— Hayao Miyazaki
My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
— Hayao Miyazaki
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
Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.
— Hayao Miyazaki
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I've never studied psychology.
— Hayao Miyazaki
See with eyes unclouded by hate.
— Hayao Miyazaki
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.
— Hayao Miyazaki
I don't intentionally make deep movies.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.
— 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
Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.
— Hayao Miyazaki