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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
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Miyazaki Hayao
Tsutomu Teruki
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We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
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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.
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I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
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Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child
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Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.
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I don't intentionally make deep movies.
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I would like to make a film to tell children it's good to be alive.
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But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.
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Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.
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I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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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.
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Life is a winking light in the darkness.
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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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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.
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I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.
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In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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