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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

Hayao Miyazaki

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Hayao Miyazaki
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Animation Director
Animator
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Miyazaki Hayao
Tsutomu Teruki
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I'm not going to make movies that tell children, You should despair and run away.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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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.
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I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.
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I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
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Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.
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The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
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At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.
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The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.
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Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.
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Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.
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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.
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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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Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
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Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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You should despair and run away.
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