When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil. Hayao Miyazaki More Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki More Quotes From Hayao Miyazaki Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about. Hayao Miyazaki film kind children I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive. Hayao Miyazaki states mind negative But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality. Hayao Miyazaki dream beautiful war Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world. Hayao Miyazaki blessed children world Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love. Hayao Miyazaki power-of-love real names Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do. Hayao Miyazaki equal hands thinking Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them. Hayao Miyazaki shrines believe people In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them. Hayao Miyazaki vision believe children I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life. Hayao Miyazaki different-ideas vision trying Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive. Hayao Miyazaki computer-graphics computer used We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation. Hayao Miyazaki important hatred joy [on the future of hand-drawn animation] I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business. Hayao Miyazaki giving-up hands people 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 Hayao Miyazaki fighting evil mean I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time. Hayao Miyazaki vacation sitting house At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these. Hayao Miyazaki genre-is warrior responsibility The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger. Hayao Miyazaki character negative years I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily. Hayao Miyazaki conservative way thinking I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor. Hayao Miyazaki endeavor film I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away". Hayao Miyazaki despair running children Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things. Hayao Miyazaki light weather wind