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I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

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
Eccentric
Images
Weird
Movies
Stand
Modern

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Life is a winking light in the darkness.
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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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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
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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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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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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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I'm not going to make movies that tell children, You should despair and run away.
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The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
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I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.
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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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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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I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
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Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.
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Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child
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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 wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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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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