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.

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not believe this, but I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything.

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.

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