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Hayao Miyazaki Biography

Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿, Miyazaki Hayao, born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, 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 anime feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest animation directors.

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

Beat, Names, Power, Power Of Love, Real

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.

Abandoned, Found, House, Like, Sick, Vacation

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.

Thinking, Hands, Sea, Raft, Log, Ships

I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.

Desire, Grasses, High, Population, Rises, Underwater

In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not believe this, but I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.

Believe, Everything, Everywhere, Ideas, Rivers

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

Eccentric, I Can, Images, Modern, Movies

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

Bites, Cut, Cutting, Head, Power, Stills

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.

Becomes, Deep, Different Ideas, Start, Trying, Vision

All my films are all my children.

Children, Film, Films, My Children

Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.

Bad, Decide, Judgment, Nobody, Right, Sit

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.

Children, Believe, Vision, Fact, Impose, Forming

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

Being A Hero, Capable, Hero, Man, Men, Woman

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

Imagination, Lack, People, Reality

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

Creation, Given, Heart, Soul, Whenever

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

Interested, Lives, People, Spend

Engineers turn dreams into reality.

Dream, Engineers, Reality, Turn, Turns

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

Adults, Infantile, Manifestation, Traits, Weaponry

The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make foregrounds that don't quite fit with my backgrounds, I never waste it and try to find the best use for it.

Adhere, Fit, Good, Principles, Trying, Use

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

Darkness, Life Is, Light, Winking

The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.

Character, Drawing, Finish, Head, Outline, Thinking

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