You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

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

In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.

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