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

In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them.

I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.

But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

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

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.