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

- Hayao Miyazaki

Think, I Think, Using, Nuclear Power

I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Shift, South, North, All My Work

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

- Hayao Miyazaki

Japan, Various, Throughout, Earthquakes

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Never, Lot, Read, Spectators

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Always, Over, Waving, Wind

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.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Boss, Factory, Craftsmen, Animation

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Weird, Movies, Images, Eccentric

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Life, Inspiration, Get, Everyday

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Through, Before, Use, Machines

I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Stupid, Think, I Think, Traffic

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Computer, Deal, Currently, Excessive

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Strength, Children, Get, Encouragement

I like underwater life.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Life, Like, Underwater

If you're going to retire, retire early.

- Hayao Miyazaki

You, Early, Going, Retire

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.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Shooting, Other, Like, Handgun

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.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Otherwise, Discussing, Issue, Debated

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Civilization, See, Would, If I Could

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.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Love, Art, Some, Compared

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Studio, Characters, Half, Female

I don't intentionally make deep movies.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Deep, Movies, Make, Intentionally

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

- Hayao Miyazaki

World, More, Like, Wild

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

- Hayao Miyazaki

Pain, Emotions, Own, Animators

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Create, Destroy, Urge, Humans

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.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Precious, Precious Time, Robbing

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

- Hayao Miyazaki

Believe, Someone, Same, Stays

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.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Against, Very, Figures, Animator

I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Grow, Think, I Think, Grow Up

I've never studied psychology.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Never, Psychology, Studied

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

- Hayao Miyazaki

Process, Stories, About, Long Time

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

- Hayao Miyazaki

Friendship, Doing, I Think, John

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