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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
Animator
Character Designer
Comics Artist
Director
Environmentalist
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
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Bunkyo
Miyazaki Hayao
Tsutomu Teruki
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I'm not going to make movies that tell children, You should despair and run away.
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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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We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
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See with eyes unclouded by hate.
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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 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.
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In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not believe this, but I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.
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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 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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I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
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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.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
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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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Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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I don't intentionally make deep movies.
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I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
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