Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child

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.

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

I've never studied psychology.

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.

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.

When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

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.

You should despair and run away.

If you're going to retire, retire early.

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

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.

When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me.

Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.

These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation--and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well, so what? So's the whole damned world.

Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.

In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.