Hayao Miyazaki

"Life is a winking light in the darkness."

"To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turnin…"

"If it is a dying craft we can't do anything about it. Civilisation moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I h…"

"It's difficult. immediately become the subjects of rorikon gokko . In a sense, if we want to depict someone who is affirmative to us, we have no choice but to make them as lovely as possible. But now,…"

"Most people depend on the internet and cellphones to survive, but what happens when they stop working? I wanted to create a mother and child who wouldn't be defeated by life without them."

"I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower…"

"Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world."

"We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation."