Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazakiis a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist. Through a career that has spanned five decades, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and as a maker of anime feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli, a film and animation studio...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth5 January 1941
CityTokyo, Japan
CountryJapan
When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me.
Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.
In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them.
I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.
I don't intentionally make deep movies.
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 going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".
Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
See with eyes unclouded by hate.