Quotes from Hayao Miyazaki

Surely there can be no more superficial people than the Japanese. They were not able to transcend the demon of economic development and as a result, we have the corruption of the world, the loss of ideals, and the worship of material things.

No subestime a la infancia; no sobreestime a los adultos.

I really wanted to punish humanity, but I realized that I was playing God, and that didn't work.

To die with something to live for

A personal movie is a frightening thing.

Ever forward, my darling wind.

please find me in the future

Number is no strength, courage only is.

Storyboards augment the scenario, expand on its intent, and exist to be analyzed and eventually revised.

O que realmente importa são as emoções subjacentes - você não deve abandoná-las.

Si no tenemos imaginación, capacidad para imaginar realidades fantásticas, estaremos más a merced de una realidad demasiado cruel.

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.

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.

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

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

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.

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.

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.

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 the 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.

Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe 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 would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.