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> There’s a lot of this in Miyazaki’s movies: the drama and delight of work

Unsurprising given Miyazaki's famously fierce work ethic:

> "...he is an intense workaholic, and resents anything that takes him away from his work. His producer and friend Toshio Suzuki told me that in the early days of their studio, Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki would work from 9 a.m. to 4:30 a.m., and that in recent years he has mellowed somewhat and goes home at midnight.”

Source: https://animeuknews.net/2005/01/hayao-miyazaki-intense-worka...



Miyazaki is a fascinating person to read about, because of his combination of luminous creativity, clarity, and lightness with plain ordinary hard work, grumpiness, and pessimism. His two books of essay-ish fragments, Starting Point and Turning Point, are well worth looking out. The documentary film "The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness" is rather good too.

(Here's a rather solipsistic piece I wrote about Starting Point and how it made me feel about my work as a programmer: https://thebreakfastpost.com/2021/01/05/hayao-miyazaki-and-w...)




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