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

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

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

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.

I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice that I have the mini-theater in the museum. Most of the museum visitors attend the mini-theater screenings and we've never had a complaint about the quality of the films. I'd like to continue to make films that leave the audience satisfied, but I also think it's pointless unless I offer them the kind of animation they can't get anywhere else. They're fun to do. They're short so it's less stressful.

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