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Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.

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Hayao Miyazaki
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Animation Director
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Film Director
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Bunkyo
Miyazaki Hayao
Tsutomu Teruki
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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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If you're going to retire, retire early.
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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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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
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I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
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We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
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Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
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I would like to make a film to tell children it's good to be alive.
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I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
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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 wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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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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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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I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.
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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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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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Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.
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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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