I'm not a collector. Hayao Miyazaki More Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki More Quotes From Hayao Miyazaki You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well. Hayao Miyazaki successful silly mean I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more. Hayao Miyazaki real games children Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene. Hayao Miyazaki clear scene persons I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it. Hayao Miyazaki drawing different stories We are not trying to solve the world's problems... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist. Hayao Miyazaki encounters hatred trying You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films. I could always do something else if I got sick of it, like draw manga, or make my own films. I found it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I'd like to go on extended vacations from time to time. Hayao Miyazaki vacation sick house When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil. Hayao Miyazaki creating villain evil I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me. Hayao Miyazaki eccentric modern i-can Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man. Hayao Miyazaki being-a-hero hero men I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women. Hayao Miyazaki female half character I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill. Hayao Miyazaki skills wish art Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child Hayao Miyazaki blessing children way All my films are all my children. Hayao Miyazaki my-children film children Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Hayao Miyazaki people Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making. Hayao Miyazaki baby children thinking You should despair and run away. Hayao Miyazaki running-away despair running I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with. Hayao Miyazaki growing-up dog children People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages. Hayao Miyazaki japan earthquakes people If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization 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. Hayao Miyazaki artist jobs moving 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 a log raft that we can row by hand. Hayao Miyazaki sea hands thinking
