178 Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki

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    I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

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    I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

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    I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.

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    The 21st century is a complex and unforeseeable epoch. Our thinking habits and our values, which until now looked settled, are being challenged.

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    Characters are pictured very simply in Moebius' drawings, yet they have a sort of atmosphere around them. And the characters themselves exhale all kinds of things, notably solitude and a great nobleness. For me, it is the greatest quality of Moebius' drawings.

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    I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

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