"Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves."
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Hayao Miyazaki quotes (page 5 of 6)
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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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"I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it."
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"I've never studied psychology."
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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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"Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive."
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"I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me."
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"The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger."
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"There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand."
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"I don't intentionally make deep movies."
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"Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love."
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"Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things."
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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 create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women."
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"I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with."
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"All my films are all my children."
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"When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me."
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"I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life."
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"Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man."
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"I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive."
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