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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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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'm not going to make movies that tell children, You should despair and run away.
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Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child
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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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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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It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.
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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 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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Life is a winking light in the darkness.
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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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Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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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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Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.
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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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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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People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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