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

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

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

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

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

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.

I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it.