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

I like underwater life.

At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.

You should despair and run away.

Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.