Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.

Through a career that has spanned over fifty years Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of anime feature films and along with Isao Takahata co-founded Studio Ghibli a film and animation studio. He recently co-wrote the film The Secret World of Arrietty which was released in July 2010 in Japan and February 2012 in the United States. Starring the voices of Sumi Shimamoto Yōji Matsuda Iemasa Kayumi Gorō Naya and Yoshiko Sakakibara this was the first film both written and directed by Miyazaki.

Miyazaki's films often contain recurrent themes like humanity's relationship with nature and technology and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. While Miyazaki's films have long enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan he remained largely unknown to the West until Miramax Films released Princess Mononoke. He recently co-wrote the film The Secret World of Arrietty which was released in July 2010 in Japan and February 2012 in the United States.