Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki

About Hayao Miyazaki:

Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist. Through a career that has spanned five decades, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and as a maker of anime feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli, a film and animation studio. The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, and American directors Steven Spielberg and Orson Welles.
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Life is a winking light in the darkness.

Hayao Miyazaki

There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities. Things won’t go well because there is a huge gap between the generalities and the particulars. If we see generalities from the top of a mountain or from a plane, ...

Hayao Miyazaki

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...

Hayao Miyazaki

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

Hayao Miyazaki

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

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

Hayao Miyazaki

I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.

Hayao Miyazaki

People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.

Hayao Miyazaki

All my films are all my children.

Hayao Miyazaki

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

Hayao Miyazaki

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

Hayao Miyazaki

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

Hayao Miyazaki

I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.

Hayao Miyazaki

If you're going to retire, retire early.

Hayao Miyazaki

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

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

Hayao Miyazaki

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

Hayao Miyazaki

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

Hayao Miyazaki

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

Hayao Miyazaki

I don't intentionally make deep movies.

Hayao Miyazaki

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

Author Bio

  • NameHayao Miyazaki
  • DescriptionJapanese animator, film director, and mangaka
  • AliasesMiyazaki Hayao
  • BornJanuary 5, 1941
  • CountryJapan
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Animator; Mangaka; Screenwriter
  • AwardsAcademy Awards Oscar; Person Of Cultural Merit; Japan Academy Prize; Annie Award