In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.

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

See with eyes unclouded by hate.

I've never studied psychology.

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

In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.