Top 114 Quotes & Sayings by Hayao Miyazaki
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
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.
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.
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'
I'm not a collector.
All my films are all my children.
My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.
I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.
We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
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'd like more of the world go back to being wild.
Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
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.
I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.
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.
I like underwater life.
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.
I've never studied psychology.
Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
If you're going to retire, retire early.
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.
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.
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
I get inspiration from my everyday life.
I don't intentionally make deep movies.
Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
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.
I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.
The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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.
I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.
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.
We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not believe this, but I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.
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.
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 they 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.
Reality is for people that lack imagination.
I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".
In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.
We are not trying to solve the world's problems... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist.
What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.
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.
Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.
It is the fate of modern life that we repeatedly lose touch with nature, the environment, the planet. But we try to regain it again and again. It's like a circle. In children's hearts and souls when they're born into the world, nature already exists deep inside them. So what I want to do in my work is tap into their souls
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.
Life is a winking light in the darkness.
Engineers turn dreams into reality.
Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.
I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.
Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!
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