I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.

You should despair and run away.

Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child

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

Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.

I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.