Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul. Hayao Miyazaki More Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki More Quotes From Hayao Miyazaki I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive". Hayao Miyazaki film alive children See with eyes unclouded by hate. Hayao Miyazaki hate eye Engineers turn dreams into reality. Hayao Miyazaki turns dream reality It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying. Hayao Miyazaki gestures numbers people In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own. Hayao Miyazaki creativity race children I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living. Hayao Miyazaki messages life-is children Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside. Hayao Miyazaki mean children thinking Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions. Hayao Miyazaki shock pain emotion To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us. Hayao Miyazaki self mean thinking I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work. Hayao Miyazaki boss cinema team I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia. Hayao Miyazaki believe children thinking Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people. Hayao Miyazaki imagination reality people I'd like more of the world go back to being wild. Hayao Miyazaki world It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime. Hayao Miyazaki would-be wonderful civilization We get strength and encouragement from watching children. Hayao Miyazaki encouragement children We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. Hayao Miyazaki cheaper rights age In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations. Hayao Miyazaki betray expectations order Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same. Hayao Miyazaki different age believe I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice that I have the mini-theater in the museum. Most of the museum visitors attend the mini-theater screenings and we've never had a complaint about the quality of the films. I'd like to continue to make films that leave the audience satisfied, but I also think it's pointless unless I offer them the kind of animation they can't get anywhere else. They're fun to do. They're short so it's less stressful. Hayao Miyazaki nice fun thinking Do everything by hand, even when using the computer. Hayao Miyazaki computer hands