Hidetaka Miyazaki Quotes

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

My imagination is a twisted place.

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

You are the smartest lunatic I have ever seen in my whole life.

I don't think, 'Oh, you know, I'm crazy and zany.'

I think my family knows that I'm slightly off the wall with my way of thinking, so I think they're quite used to my weird and wonderful creations.

I have lots of strange ideas in the back of my mind.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense.

A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a high squeaky voice from inhaling helium. It is written nowhere in the math of probability theory that one may have no fun.

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'

I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.