Hayao Miyazaki Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Messages, Kind, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

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• The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Character, Thinking, Drawing

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• 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

  Past, Thinking, Essence

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

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Messages, Life Is

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• See with eyes unclouded by hate.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Hate, Eye

  "Princess Mononoke". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Engineers turn dreams into reality.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Dream, Reality, Turns

  "Kaze tachinu [The Wind Rises]". www.imdb.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Hands, Computer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Team, Boss, Cinema

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• 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

  "A god among animators" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Pain, Emotion, Shock

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• 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

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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.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Reality, People, Imagination

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Believe, Age, Different

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

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Peace, Mean, Endless

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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.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Real, Games

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• 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

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

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Numbers, People, Gestures

  "Hayao Miyazaki: iPad Use ‘Disgusting,’ ‘Masturbation-Like’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2010.

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

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Blessed, World

  "Machines in the Garden". New York Film Festival Press Conference, www.slate.com. October 29, 1999.

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• I think talent decides everything. More than the method, what's important is the talent using it. There's nothing inherently wrong or right about a method, whether it be pencil drawings or 3-D CG. Pencil drawings don't have to go away, but those who continue to use the medium lack talent. So sadly, it will fade away.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Thinking, Important, Going Away

  "Hayao Miyazaki: Governors Award Recipient Says ‘I Intend to Work Until the Day I Die’". Interview with Mark Schilling, variety.com. November 7, 2014.

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• 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

  Source: variety.com

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

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Civilization, Would Be, Wonderful

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• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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