There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
“Maybe there was a time when you could make films that mattered, but now?” — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away". — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive". — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
The single difference between films for children and films for adults is that in films for children, there is always the option… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team.… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience.… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
“[pitching the proposal for Mononoke-hime (1997)] There cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans. However, even in… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share
Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share
I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings,… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share
Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share
No matter how many WEAPONS you have, no matter how great your TECHNOLOGY might be, the world cannot live without LOVE. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share
The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make foregrounds that… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share
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… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share
What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share
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… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share
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… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share
