We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

[on the future of hand-drawn animation] I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.

In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not believe this, but I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

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