Author of quotes: Hayao Miyazaki

The child is proof that the world is beautiful.

They say that you have to face reality, but for me personally, the power of fantasy provided a place where I myself could be a hero. Even if it's not animation or manga, it could be old stories or legends. Humanity invented them in order to help us survive.

We lack the ability to choose the time and place of our birth. We choose one path in life and lose the ability to know where we have brought other countless ways. And I think that is why the fantasy worlds of cartoons so exactly coincide with our hopes and aspirations. They illustrate the world of our lost opportunities.

Life is hard, but the children while they are children, this doesn't have to know.

Look over there. see the house that's covered in ivy? What if that roof jump to the next, to fly on the blue-green wall, climb up the pipe, run along the roof and jump on the next? In the animation possible. Run the wire can open you up to something new. When you look from the height, so many things open to you. It is possible to race around the concrete wall. And suddenly your boring town turns into a magical film. Isn't it great to see things this way? It seems like you're able to find yourself in another world. Maybe it is possible.

One who has enough experience and observation, can hardly call yourself an animator. Once, when we were developing the scene with the burning fire of my employees told me that they had never seen burning firewood. And I said to them: "shut it. Go and see". At that moment I thought, I must have been very old. Because I remember a time when all Japanese baths were heated with firewood. And today you just press a button.

I admit it: hand-drawn animation is dying. Masters of hand-drawn animation will soon become unnecessary, as once were not needed, the creators of the murals. But I'm happy that I have spent in this dying craft for more than forty years.

I believe that children's souls inherit historical memory of previous generations. Then, when they begin to grow up, they inherited the memory becomes more and more unattainable. So more than anything I want to make a film that is able to awaken in people the memory. If I do this, I will die happy.

We live in an era when cheaper and more profitable to buy the rights to a film than rent it.

Even in the depths of struggle and hatred life is worth to live. It can be wonderful encounters and beautiful things.

In many of my films have a strong heroine - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice before jumping to defend what they believe with all your heart. They need friends or companions, but do not need saviors. Any woman can be a hero as any man.

I have ceased to believe in the unwritten rule that if a boy and a girl appear together in the film or book, they need to occur in a romantic relationship. Instead, I want to show a slightly different relationship, where each inspires the other to live if I get, I seem closer to show true love.

I don't like that many people believe that nostalgia is a privilege of an adult. Children feel nostalgic just the same, if not more acute. In my opinion, nostalgia is a common human emotion. Because life is a constant series of losses. And children feel these losses just like everyone else.

It seems to me that children intuitively understand this better than adults: the world in which they were born, ruthless, hopeless and cheese.