Miyazaki Movies Quotes & Sayings

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. — Hayao Miyazaki

Furie had once asked her, "Why would you ever send a man to do a woman's job?"
Confused, Myst had answered, "Because I can. — Kresley Cole

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind. — Mike Dirnt

Let's be honest, honest it's important. I don't care about you, don't say bullshit and if there isn't any important thing please don't write me. — Deyth Banger

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us. — Hayao Miyazaki

Life will be very boring without any challenges to overcome. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Parents who do not persevere in rearing their children according to their own convictions are not leaving them 'free' to develop on their own. Instead, they are letting other children and the media, principally television and the movies, do the job. — William V. Shannon

If you were a thing - a cart or a horse or a slave - your value determined your possibilities. — Colson Whitehead

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him. — Lajos Kossuth

In an instant, everything in the room came alive. Like the sunshine had a melody and the sounds of footsteps had a texture I could feel in my fingertips each time anyone moved — Kiera Cass

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel. — Chris Carmack

Sometimes I think you realists are the most sentimental people in the world. — John Steinbeck

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me. — Hayao Miyazaki

What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it? — Sontag, Susan

One animal died and, after it tested positive for Reston virus, forty-nine others housed in the same room were "euthanized" as a precaution. (Most of those, tested posthumously, were negative.) Ten employees who had helped unload and handle the monkeys were also screened for infection, and they also tested negative, but none of them were euthanized. — David Quammen

I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away". — Hayao Miyazaki

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers. — Kid Rock

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton

I don't intentionally make deep movies. — Hayao Miyazaki

Tell me you didn't really watch Nausicaa."
Miho tried to keep a serious face, which must have been difficult enough in her flannel Hello Kitty pajamas. But the girl was a terrible liar. She smirked.
"No. Kiki just ended. So much for our Miyazaki marathon."
"We got through two movies," Sakura said. "Tonight, that's a marathon."
They'd wanted to watch movies tonight, just to clear their minds, and had agreed on nothing violent. All three of them loved the films of Miyazaki, who had become perhaps the most successful director in Japan while making only animated films. Kara had vetoed Howl's Moving Castle because she'd seen it too recently, and they had all seen My Neighbor Totoro far too many times, so they had started with Spirited Away. — Thomas Randall

Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."
She had laughed and said, "I've read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If I read them now, the endings will have changed. — Sarah Addison Allen

Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man. — Hayao Miyazaki