A quote by Hayao Miyazaki

Every day children are born and every day children grow up around us, whether or not we animation creators come up with a motive for our characters. And the challenges they confront haven’t decreased in the slightest. They may no longer identify with and be encouraged by champions of justice as in the past, but they still want to be encouraged, sti

MIYAZAKI: We hurry to teach young children how to write. This means we are teaching abstract thinking at an age when they learn things with their bodies. This is not good at all. We should wait.

children don’t necessarily like all forty of the anime programs that are broadcast each week, so I feel that we owe it to them to make anime with some meaning. As long as someone shares this feeling, I don’t think it matters if that person is a workaholic. In fact, without workaholics, Japan’s animation could never be sustained.

“Well,” Poppy said in resignation, “it’s better than being a hedgehog, I suppose.” “Miss Marks is a hedgehog,” Beatrix said in a matter-of-fact tone that made Poppy grin.

There seemed to him to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.