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I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

Hayao Miyazaki

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Hayao Miyazaki
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Animation Director
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Miyazaki Hayao
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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 can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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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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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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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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The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
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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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Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
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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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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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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 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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I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
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If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
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I don't intentionally make deep movies.
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Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
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