Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

See with eyes unclouded by hate.

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

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

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

The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make foregrounds that don't quite fit with my backgrounds, I never waste it and try to find the best use for it.

Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.