"In my movies for children, I want to express before anything else the themes: “The world is profound, manifold and beautiful,” and “You children are fortunate to have been born into this world… Although the world’s beset with lots of seemingly intractable problems, such as population explosion and environmental disruptions, making it difficult to entertain hope, it’s nevertheless a wonderful thing to live.” This is more easily said than done. It’s adults rather than children that are seeing their hopes dashed. So making movies also amounts to struggling with myself."

Hayao Miyazaki (via namidazora)