Hayao Miyazaki People Quotations

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

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

[on the future of hand-drawn animation] I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.