Zitate von Hayao Miyazaki

„Unsere Leben sind wie der Wind … oder wie Töne.

Wir entstehen, schwingen miteinander …

Um dann dahinzuschwinden“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

„Ich werde keine Filme machen, in denen es heißt: "Du solltest verzweifeln und weglaufen".“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

„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. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

(2005) The Guardian article http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/sep/14/japan.awardsandprizes

„You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, 'Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life.' If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

2014 interview http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/01/30/ghiblis-hayao-miyazaki-says-the-anime-industrys-problem-is-that-its-full-of-anime-fans/ with Japanese news website Golden Times, 27 January 2014. Translated by RocketNews24 on January 30, 2014.

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

—  Hayao Miyazaki

At the New York Film Festival http://www.slate.com/id/43805/

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

—  Hayao Miyazaki

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

—  Hayao Miyazaki

„You may not like what's happening, but just accept it, and let's try to live together. Even if you feel angry, let's be patient and endure, let's try to live together. I've realized that this is the only way forward.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

„The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

Quelle: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1

„Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

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

—  Hayao Miyazaki

„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.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

„But remember this, Japanese boy… airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki, The Wind Rises

Quelle: The Wind Rises

„The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

„Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

„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 have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

on the topic of hand-drawn animation (2005) The Guardian article http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/sep/14/japan.awardsandprizes
On Animation

„The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

Variante: The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

„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.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki

„Our lives are like the wind… or like sounds.

We come into being, resonate with each other…

Then fade away“

—  Hayao Miyazaki