178 Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

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.

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

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

Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures

At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.

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

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.