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!

I don't intentionally make deep movies.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.