Top 34 Quotes by Hayao Miyazaki

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

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.

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.

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

I don't intentionally make deep movies.

If you're going to retire, retire early.

I'm not a collector.

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.

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