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Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki

Characters are pictured very simply in Moebius' drawings, yet they have a sort of atmosphere around them. And the characters themselves exhale all kinds of things, notably solitude and a great nobleness. For me, it is the greatest quality of Moebius' drawings.
– Hayao Miyazaki
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
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.
– Hayao Miyazaki
I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
– Hayao Miyazaki
Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
– Hayao Miyazaki
The 21st century is a complex and unforeseeable epoch. Our thinking habits and our values, which until now looked settled, are being challenged.
– Hayao Miyazaki
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
– Hayao Miyazaki
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.
– Hayao Miyazaki
We get strength and encouragement from watching children.
– Hayao Miyazaki
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.
– Hayao Miyazaki
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