Hayao Miyazaki

“I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.”

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

“People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.”

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

“When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.”

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

“I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.”