Hayao Miyazaki Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

“Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm not a collector.”