I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.