Hayao Miyazaki

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

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

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

"Its difficult. [My female protagonists] immediately become the subjects of rorikon gokko (play toy for Lolita Complex males). In a sense, if we want to depict someone who is affirmative to us, we have no choice but to make them as lovely as possible. But now, there are too many people who shamelessly depict [such protagonists] as if they just want [such girls] as pets, and things are escalating more and more."

"If it is a dying craft we cant 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. Thats rare in any era."

"Every morning, not in recent days, I see my friend who has a disability. It’s so hard for him just to do a high five; his arm with stiff muscle can’t reach out to my hand. Now, thinking of him, I can’t watch this stuff and find it interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself. I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves.Frank Pasquale, New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI, Oct 27, 2020, Harvard University Press, page 53.Tom Leatham, Hayao Miyazaki on the use of AI: “I am utterly disgusted”, May 5, 2023."