We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

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.

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

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

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.

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