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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

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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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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You should despair and run away.
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
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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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Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child
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I don't intentionally make deep movies.
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We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
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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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Life is a winking light in the darkness.
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No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.
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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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