No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.

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.

Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

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