Turning Point: 1997-2008

The history of aircraft is mercilessness itself. Despite this, I love stories about aviators. I won’t discuss my reasons as they would seem like justifications. It is most likely because I have a streak of brutality in me. I feel I would suffocate if all I had was my daily life.

The manga format is so readily comprehended that it has become Japanese culture’s common denominator. That is the peril faced by Japanese culture.

Saint-Exupéry died because he was bound to die. I want to honor his way of living. It shouldn’t matter if one has setbacks, or dies from drink, or dies in an airplane. We all have the right to make that choice, and we should be entitled to it. There’s no need for all of us to live in a healthy way, always being positive. Poets in particular should

MIYAZAKI: A friend of mine from Nagoya says, “Nagoya got rid of alleyways with its city planning. The result is that young people don’t stay there. I was surprised when I came to Tokyo to discover so many narrow alleys that are fun to stroll along.” As I’m used to them, I don’t notice them as much, but alleys seem to provide a psychological retreat

Of the films we made at Ghibli, the first films, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, and Totoro weren’t able to recoup their production costs from the theatrical releases. We were finally able to make a profit from secondary rights. That switched with Kiki’s Delivery Service. So it wasn’t as if we had a warm, receptive audience f

UMEHARA: So you are saying the Jōmon folk engaged in commerce? AMINO: Obsidian for tools was collected under the premise that it would be bartered, and salt was also traded.

UMEHARA: I wrote a play called Gilgamesh that dramatized the Gilgamesh legend. I consider it to be my best work. The best works don’t always sell well, but I really think it is my best work.

I didn’t make this film to be a message about the natural environment. In fact, I meant to state my objection to the way environmental issues are treated. That is, I didn’t want to split off the global environment from human beings. I wanted to include the entire world of humans and other living creatures, as well as the global environment, water,

AM: You call it a healthy ambition? MIYAZAKI: You can’t get anywhere without ambition. You have to want to expand your influence and your powers of expression. There are increasingly too many people who think it is enough to do a good job with what they have been assigned. Having ambition means wanting to become, for example, an editor-in-chief so