Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.

I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a little confused about what it's supposed to look like at the end of the day. But it all works out. I find a way.

There ain't no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something...All this talk about rules...When the deal goes down...we make 'em up as we go along.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

You want to give the director what they want, and you don't always know exactly how it goes, so you want to try it a few different ways. You have to be flexible; you have to be in collaboration with the director; you have to be versatile. But you also want to be protective of what you really believe in and how you feel it should be portrayed.

Make it work

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

The used key is always bright.

Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to per­severance.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.