Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

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

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

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.

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

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

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

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

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

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

The winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It's never unscathed.

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

In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.

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

You should despair and run away.

First don't panic, second don't panic and third DID I MENTCHIN NOT TO PANIC?!

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

Jiji: [after hearing that Kiki plans on leaving town for her witch training] I'm going to put my paws together and pray that you're not serious!

When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.

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

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

Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

All my films are all my children.

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

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

Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.

We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.

Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.

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

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

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

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

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

I don't intentionally make deep movies.

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

Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.

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

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

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

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

Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'

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

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

I've never studied psychology.

See with eyes unclouded by hate.

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.

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

See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.

Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

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.

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

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

I'm not a collector.

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

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

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

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.

Our lives are like the wind ... or like sounds.
We come into being, resonate with each other ...
Then fade away

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

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

If you're going to retire, retire early.

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

I like underwater life.

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.