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Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.

In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, a...

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See that house with the Ivy on it? From that rooftop, what if you leapt onto the next rooftop, dashe...

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It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, tha...

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Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful en...

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If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Wh...

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I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feat...

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There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities. Things won’t go ...

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Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help ...

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Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is...

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But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. A...

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To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to los...

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Starting Point: 1979-1996

These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation--and nobody c...

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Princess Mononoke Film Comic

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.

I don't intentionally make deep movies.

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

In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I ...

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Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice abou...

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We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

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Hayao Miyazaki

Film director

Born: 1941-01-05

Died: N/A

Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿, Miyazaki Hayao, born January 5, 1941) is one of the most famous and respected creators of anime, or Japanese animated films.More