Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.