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 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.
I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.
Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
The 21st century is a complex and unforeseeable epoch. Our thinking habits and our values, which until now looked settled, are being challenged.
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
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.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.
Hayao is good friends with Isao Takahata, with whom he co-founded Studio Ghibli.
Hayao has feelings of guilt because he lived comfortably as a child during the war.
Hayao finds pigs "easier to draw than camels or giraffes". He uses them a lot because they are like humans in terms of behavior. He is also a big fan of pigs
After the Ghibli film Pom Poko (which deals with environmental issues) a National Park was opened up in Japan named “Totoro National Park”.
Hayao is a huge fan of Italy.
Hayao loves Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny
Hayao enjoys anything that has to do with airplanes. He even includes them in some of his movies.
On June 6, 2005, Hayao Miyazaki was in New York City’s Museum of Modern Art for premiere of all his movies he has worked on.
Hayao is the sign of the (Metal) Dragon.
Hayao Miyazaki's father, Katsuji Miyazaki, was born around 1915. Katsuji died in 1993.
During 1944 to 1946, Hayao Miyazaki stayed at Utsunomiya City and Kanuma City in the Ibaragi Prefecture in Japan together with his parents and brothers.
Despite being a workaholic, Hayao Miyazaki takes a nap everyday between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm, sleeping for exactly 30 minutes.
Hayao Miyazaki is known to work seven days a week.
Hayao Miyazki has often used music written and conducted by J? Hisaishi in many of his animation movies.
Many of Hayao's films contain strong female characters.
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