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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 the 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

Hayao Miyazaki Friendship Love Romance

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

Hayao Miyazaki Happiness Life

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.

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Hayao Miyazaki Existence Life Possibility

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

Hayao Miyazaki Airplanes Engineering War

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

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki Beauty Hatred Inspirational Life Living Wonder

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

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Hayao Miyazaki Fly Hawk Life Sparrow World

Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe 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

Hayao Miyazaki Brave Feminism Friend Movies Passion Self Sufficient Studio Ghibli Support

See that house with the Ivy on it? From that rooftop, what if you leapt onto the next rooftop, dashed over that blue & green wall, climbed and jumped up the pipe, ran across the roof and jumped to the next? You can, in animation.If you could walk along the cable, you could see the other side. When you look from above, so many things reveal themselves to you. Maybe race along the concrete wall. Suddenly, there in your humdrum town there is a magical movie. Isn’t it fun to see things that way? Feels like you could go somewhere far beyond……maybe you can…

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki Imagination Magical Miyazaki Rooftop

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

Hayao Miyazaki Evil Good

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

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki Age Perspective

There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities. Things won’t go well because there is a huge gap between the generalities and the particulars. If we see generalities from the top of a mountain or from a plane, we feel it’s hopeless, but if we go down, there is a nice road running about fifty meters, we feel this is a nice road, and if the weather is fine and shining, we feel we can go on… Since the people in the community are cleaning up the river in my neighborhood, I join them when I have the time. A human can often be satisfied with the particulars. That’s what I like best these days.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki Environmentalism Perspective

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

Hayao Miyazaki Arrogant Choice Creatures Hayao Hayao Miyazaki Human Civilization Miyazaki Rich

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

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki Age Cheap Film Today

These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation--and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well, so what? So's the whole damned world.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki Cursed Ghosts Pessimism

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki Eyes Brain Me

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki Children Encouragement

I don't intentionally make deep movies.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki Deep Intentionally Make

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

~ Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki Vision Understanding Think
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