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Hayao Miyazaki
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„Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.“
„It’s difficult. [My female protagonists] immediately become the subjects of rorikon gokko (play toy for Lolita Complex males). In a sense, if we want to depict someone who is affirmative to us, we have no choice but to make them as lovely as possible. But now, there are too many people who shamelessly depict [such protagonists] as if they just want [such girls] as pets, and things are escalating more and more.“
„I believe that children’s souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It’s just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.“
„Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.“
„You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, ‘Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life.’ If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. 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!“
„Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.“
„See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.“
„Chihiro, huh? Her real name’s Chihiro? Can’t beat the power of love.“
„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.“
„The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.“
„In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.“
„My process is thinking, thinking and thinking – thinking about my stories for a long time.“
„Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.“
„We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.“
„You may not like what’s happening, but just accept it, and let’s try to live together. Even if you feel angry, let’s be patient and endure, let’s try to live together. I’ve realized that this is the only way forward.“
„Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.“
„I’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.“
„The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.“
„Most people depend on the internet and cellphones to survive, but what happens when they stop working? I wanted to create a mother and child who wouldn’t be defeated by life without them.“
„If it is a dying craft we can’t do anything about it. Civilisation moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That’s rare in any era.“
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