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" Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things. "

Hayao Miyazaki

Weather

Wind

Plants

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" I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise. "

" We get strength and encouragement from watching children. "

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

" I get inspiration from my everyday 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. "

" All my films are all my children. "

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

" I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Humans have both the urge to create and destroy. "

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

" I like underwater life. "

Hayao Miyazaki

Life

Underwater

" 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. "

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

" I'm not a collector. "

Hayao Miyazaki

Collector

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

" When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something. "

" I've never studied psychology. "

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

Hayao Miyazaki

Back

" 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

Computers

Eyes