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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.

Hayao Miyazaki

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Hayao Miyazaki
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
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You should despair and run away.
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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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Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.
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You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.
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I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
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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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Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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I think talent decides everything. More than the method, what's important is the talent using it. There's nothing inherently wrong or right about a method, whether it be pencil drawings or 3-D CG. Pencil drawings don't have to go away, but those who continue to use the medium lack talent. So sadly, it will fade away.
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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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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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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 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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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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Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.
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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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I'm not going to make movies that tell children, You should despair and run away.
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