1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, screenwriter, author, and manga artist. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a film and animation studio, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and as a maker of animated feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the animation business.

Born in Bunkyō Ward of Tokyo, Miyazaki expressed interest in manga and animation from an early age, and he joined Toei Animation in 1963. During his early years at Toei Animation he worked as an in-between artist and later collaborated with director Isao Takahata. Notable films to which Miyazaki contributed at Toei include Doggie March and Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon. He provided key animation to other films at Toei, such as Puss in Boots and Animal Treasure Island, before moving to A-Pro in 1971, where he co-directed Lupin the Third Part I alongside Takahata. After moving to Zuiyō Eizō in 1973, Miyazaki worked as an animator on World Masterpiece Theater, and directed the television series Future Boy Conan. He joined Telecom Animation Film/Tokyo Movie Shinsha in 1979 to direct his first feature films, The Castle of Cagliostro in 1979 and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984, as well as the television series Sherlock Hound.

Miyazaki co-founded Studio Ghibli in 1985. He directed numerous films with Ghibli, including Castle in the Sky , My Neighbor Totoro , Kiki's Delivery Service , and Porco Rosso . The films were met with critical and commercial success in Japan. Miyazaki's film Princess Mononoke was the first animated film ever to win the Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year, and briefly became the highest-grossing film in Japan following its release in 1997; its distribution to the Western world greatly increased Ghibli's popularity and influence outside Japan. His 2001 film Spirited Away became the highest-grossing film in Japanese history, winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards and is frequently ranked among the greatest films of the 2000s. Miyazaki's later films—Howl's Moving Castle , Ponyo , and The Wind Rises —also enjoyed critical and commercial success. Following the release of The Wind Rises, Miyazaki announced his retirement from feature films, though he returned to work on a new feature film in 2016.

Miyazaki's works are characterized by the recurrence of themes such as humanity's relationship with nature and technology, the wholesomeness of natural and traditional patterns of living, the importance of art and craftsmanship, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic in a violent world. The protagonists of his films are often strong girls or young women, and several of his films present morally ambiguous antagonists with redeeming qualities. Miyazaki's works have been highly praised and awarded; he was named a Person of Cultural Merit for outstanding cultural contributions in November 2012, and received the Academy Honorary Award for his impact on animation and cinema in November 2014. In 2002, American film critic Roger Ebert suggested that Miyazaki may be the best animation filmmaker in history, praising the depth and artistry of his films. Miyazaki has frequently been cited as an inspiration for numerous animators, directors, and writers. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. January 1941
Hayao Miyazaki photo

Works

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
The Wind Rises
Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki: 34 quotes47 likes

Famous Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

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

Hayao Miyazaki

Variant: 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.”

Hayao Miyazaki

(2009) Independent News article 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/hayao-miyazaki-modern-movies-are-too-weird-for-me-1678129.html <br class="br">On Ponyo

“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 The Wind Rises

Source: The Wind Rises

Hayao Miyazaki Quotes about life

“Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.”

Hayao Miyazaki

“Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.”

Hayao Miyazaki

“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!”

Hayao Miyazaki

2014 interview http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/01/30/ghiblis-hayao-miyazaki-says-the-anime-industrys-problem-is-that-its-full-of-anime-fans/ with Japanese news website Golden Times, 27 January 2014. Translated by RocketNews24 on January 30, 2014.

Hayao Miyazaki Quotes about the world

“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.”

Hayao Miyazaki

on the topic of hand-drawn animation (2005) The Guardian article http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/sep/14/japan.awardsandprizes <br class="br">On Animation

“Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.”

Hayao Miyazaki

At the New York Film Festival http://www.slate.com/id/43805/

“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.”

Hayao Miyazaki

(2005) The Guardian article http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/sep/14/japan.awardsandprizes

Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

“Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.”

Hayao Miyazaki

“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.”

Hayao Miyazaki

“Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.”

Hayao Miyazaki

Source: もののけ姫 [Mononoke hime]

“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

“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

“The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.”

Hayao Miyazaki

Source: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1

“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.”

Hayao Miyazaki

“Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.”

Hayao Miyazaki

“Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.”

Hayao Miyazaki

“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.”

Hayao Miyazaki

“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

Proposal for Princess Mononoke http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/mh/story_proposal.txt

“Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.”

Hayao Miyazaki

Source: Spirited Away, Volume 5

“Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.”

Hayao Miyazaki

Source: Spirited Away, Volume 1

“Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.”

Hayao Miyazaki

on the topic of CGI animation (2005) The Guardian article http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/sep/14/japan.awardsandprizes <br class="br">On Animation

“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.”

Hayao Miyazaki

1988 interview with Animage, Animage, vol. 125, November 1988. Retrieved June 8, 2007.

Similar authors

Yukio Mishima photo
Yukio Mishima60
Japanese author None
Kanō Jigorō photo
Kanō Jigorō19
Japanese educator and judoka None
Walt Disney photo
Walt Disney102
American film producer and businessman None
Pier Paolo Pasolini photo
Pier Paolo Pasolini3
Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual None
Kenzaburō Ōe photo
Kenzaburō Ōe43
Japanese author None
Brigitte Bardot photo
Brigitte Bardot35
French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist None
Makoto Kobayashi (physicist) photo
Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)3
Japanese physicist None
Sylvester Stallone photo
Sylvester Stallone8
American actor, screenwriter, and film director None
Yasunari Kawabata photo
Yasunari Kawabata44
Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner None
Orson Welles photo
Orson Welles53
American actor, director, writer and producer None