Quotes from Hayao Miyazaki

Danger doesn't always come from the enemy.

These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation--and nobody cares. So you say you're under a curse? Well, so what? So's the whole damned world.

Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don't even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you'll be flying again.

Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.

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 winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It's never unscathed.

Today, all of humanity's dreams are cursed somehow. Beautiful yet cursed dreams.

Whoever falls, hatred will breed hatred.

I can feel it everyday, the limit of my ability.

I've become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue.

Of course I believe that other world exists. If they didn't life wouldn't be interesting. It's like love: you can't see but it exists-simply because you believe it. It's just a matter of believing.

I'd rather be a pig than a fascist

Basically, I think I just want them to know that the world is deep and filled with variety. That there are infinite possibilities in the world they live in and that they are a part of this world. Perhaps it's enough just to say that the world is rich and precious and that they hold it in their hands. I honestly made this film just wanting to tell these young girls, "Don't worry, you can make it all right.

A veces creo que los dioses se burlan de nosotros.

I have a strong desire to be liberated from being tied down to reality.

A hearts a heavy burden - Sophie Hatter

Every life-form, no matter how small, contains the outside universe within it's internal universe.

Once you've met someone you really never forget them; it just takes a while for your memory to return

No puedo quedarme sentado en mi escritorio. Las ideas vienen de lo inesperado.

Extinction has long since become a part of our lives.

inspiration unlocks the future

If I were asked my view, in a nutshell, of what animation is, I would say it is what ever I want to create.

No, you can just paint me walking into shadows.

There's an old saying, 'Look not into the heart of the Ohmu.' They say if you do, you'll never come back...