Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.

When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.

Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.

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

I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.