List of Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

Those Are Shrines. Some People Believe Spirits Live In Them.

Currently Computer Graphics Are Used A Great Deal, But It Can Be Excessive.

I've Never Studied Psychology.

To Have A Film Where There's An Evil Figure And A Good Person Fights Against The Evil Figure And Everything Becomes A Happy Ending, That's One Way To Make A Film. But Then That Means You Have To Draw, As An Animator, The Evil Figure. And It's Not Very Pleasant To Draw Evil Figures.

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.

I Can't Stand Modern Movies. The Images Are Too Weird And Eccentric For Me.

People In Japan Have Experienced Many Tsunamis And Various Earthquakes Throughout The Ages.

I Make Films As A Business, Not As A Cultural Endeavor.

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.

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.

[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.

I Don't Intentionally Make Deep Movies.