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“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. Ð•ÑÐ»Ð¸ Ð¿ÐµÑ€ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»Ð°Ñ‚ÑŒ Ð½Ð° within my films”
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Messages #Kind #Film
“Iâ€™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 liveâ€“ if Iâ€™ m able to, then perhaps Iâ€™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

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