Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

With my own cartoon, it was just me being goofy by myself, but when it comes to an animated film, you're working with 45 animators and assistant animators. It's a whole different ballgame.

In animation, there's not a medium I believe that's more collaborative. It is a team of people, of different disciplines, coming together. The decisions are made by consensus in many cases. My job as a director is to exercise the best judgement I can in terms of which decision is the best one to make for the movie.

In animation, the directors are part of a huge team of animators who all have opinions, too. It's a much more democratic process. Also, the animation executives oversee things more.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.

In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

I love being able to bring an animator's vision to life and give the breath to the voice of a character.

Animation is very much a team effort so you must be a team player.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

As an actor, I always wondered what it would be like to watch an animated character with your voice behind it and see if it seems seamless or if it seems like your voice is isolated from the animation.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.

That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.

From an animation perspective, it doesn't get better than Pixar. You're working so much in the blind because the huge circle of collaborators that's required to pull off a film like this means that you are just one small arc in that large circle. The level of trust that you have to give into is significant.

In animation, what's wonderful is that when you start to work with multiple nationalities, the common language becomes a visual language rather than a spoken language, which blends beautifully with the art form.