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If it is a dying craft we can't do anything about it. Civilisation moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.

— Hayao Miyazaki on the topic of hand-drawn animation (2005)

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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.

Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.

on the topic of CGI animation (2005)

Most people depend on the internet and cellphones to survive, but what happens when they stop working? I wanted to create a mother and child who wouldn't be defeated by life without them.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

When you talk about plants, or an ecological system or forest, things are very easy if you decide that bad people ruined it. But that's not what humans have been doing. It's not bad people who are destroying forests.

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