178 Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki

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

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

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

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

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

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.

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.

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

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