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

Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.

Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.

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

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

I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.