178 Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki

Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.

I’m not going to make movies that tell children, “You should despair and run away”.

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

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

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

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

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it – I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

Maybe that’s what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child.

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.