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“Jiji: [after hearing that Kiki plans on leaving town for her witch training] I'm going to put my paws together and pray that you're not serious!”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, "Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life." If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“An author’s fondest dream is to turn the reader into a spectator; is this ever attained?”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

“In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.”
― Hayao Miyazaki