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.

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

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

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

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

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

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.