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People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.

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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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Japan

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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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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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I would like to make a film to tell children it's good to be alive.
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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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The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
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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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Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
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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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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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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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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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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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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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Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.
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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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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 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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I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
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If you're going to retire, retire early.
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