Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

What you mean by 'peace' is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.

It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.