Hayao Miyazaki - biography

“Is someone different at age 18 or 60?  I believe one stays the same.”

“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.”

“We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.”

“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 never read reviews.  I’m not interested.  But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.”

“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.”

Hayao Miyazaki directed the following films:
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Kurenai no buta (1992)
Porco Rosso (1992)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Spirited Away (2001)
Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Ponyo (2008)


Hayao Miyazaki contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Kurenai no buta (1992)
Porco Rosso (1992)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Spirited Away (2001)
Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Tales from Earthsea (2006)
Ponyo (2008)
Arrietty (2010)