178 Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki

I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue.

If you’re going to retire, retire early.

Today, all of humanity’s dreams are cursed somehow. Beautiful yet cursed dreams.

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.

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.

Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.

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.

These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation – and nobody cares. So you say you’re under a curse? Well, so what? So’s the whole damned world.

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