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Hayao Miyazaki
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Hayao Miyazaki
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Animation Director
Animator
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Director
Environmentalist
Film Director
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Bunkyo
Miyazaki Hayao
Tsutomu Teruki
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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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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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
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I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.
Hayao Miyazaki
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
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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 don't intentionally make deep movies.
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See with eyes unclouded by hate.
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I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.
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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'm not going to make movies that tell children, You should despair and run away.
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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.
Hayao Miyazaki
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.
Hayao Miyazaki
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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I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
Hayao Miyazaki
Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.
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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.
Hayao Miyazaki
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.
Hayao Miyazaki
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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