Hayao Miyazaki famous quotes

When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Missing #Borders #Watches

There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films. Если переделать на within my films
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Messages #Kind #Film

I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where they two mutually inspire each other to live– if I’ m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Girl #Boys #Expression

Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Beautiful #Airplane #Air

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Believe #Heart #Reality

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Vacation #House #Sitting

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Hate #Eye #Two

You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Stories #Film #Accepted

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Girl #Strong #Believe

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Son #Years #Lucky

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Numbers #World #Chaos

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Adults #Weaponry #Manifestation

In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Children #Creativity #Race

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Mind #Negative #States

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Team #Boss #Cinema

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Film #Endeavor

Engineers turn dreams into reality.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Dream #Reality #Turns

Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Judgment

Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Hands #Computer

Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Children #Kind #Film

Life is a winking light in the darkness.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Light #Darkness #Life Is

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Real #Inspiration #Thinking

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Rights #Age #Cheaper

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Thinking #Hands #Sea

In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Thinking #Past #Civilization

Reality is for people that lack imagination.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Reality #People #Imagination

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Thinking #Ideas #Evil

In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Order #Expectations #Betray

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Pain #Emotion #Shock

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Believe #Age #Different

Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Believe #Matter #Where You Are

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Humans

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Light #Wind #Weather

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Character #Female #Half

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Civilization #Would Be #Wonderful

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#World

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Thinking #Long #Stories

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

#Eccentric #Modern

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Thinking #Nuclear #Plant

Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Real #Taken #People

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Hero #Men #Being A Hero

Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Growing Up #Character #Thinking

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Encouragement #Children

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Art #Skills #Wish

It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Numbers #People #Gestures

I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Dog #Children #Growing Up

What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Peace #Mean #Endless

If you're going to retire, retire early.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Retiring

All my films are all my children.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Children #Film #My Children

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Children #Real #Games

Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Thinking #Hands #Equal

See with eyes unclouded by hate.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Hate #Eye

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Believe #Ideas #Rivers

When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Girl #Jobs #Men

People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Japan #Earthquakes #People

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Computer #Used #Deals

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Believe #People #Shrines

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Cutting #Stills

Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Baby #Children #Thinking

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Japan #Fake #Modern Life

[on the future of hand-drawn animation] I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Giving Up #Hands #People

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Jobs #Moving #Artist

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Character #Years #Sides

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Responsibility #Warrior #People

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Hatred #Joy #Important

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Thinking #Way #Conservative

I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Running #Children #Despair

I don't intentionally make deep movies.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Real #Names #Power Of Love

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Ideas #Vision #Trying

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Children #Alive #Film

But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Beautiful #Dream #War

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Believe #Play #Inspire

No matter how many WEAPONS you have, no matter how great your TECHNOLOGY might be, the world cannot live without LOVE.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Technology #World #Might

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Heart #Soul #Creation

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Mean #Thinking #Self

You should despair and run away.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Running #Despair #Running Away

Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Children #Blessing #Way

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.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Children #Memories #Believe

I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living,
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Children #Messages #Life Is

Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Children #Blessed #World

I get inspiration from my everyday life.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Inspiration #Everyday #Everyday Life

I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Desire #Population #Underwater

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#People