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Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

Hayao Miyazaki

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Hayao Miyazaki
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Animation Director
Animator
Character Designer
Comics Artist
Director
Environmentalist
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Illustrator
Bunkyo
Miyazaki Hayao
Tsutomu Teruki
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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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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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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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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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Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.
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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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We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
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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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You should despair and run away.
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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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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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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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In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not believe this, but I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
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I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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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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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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