I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person.

I was deliberately trying to express how possible it might be for unmarried men and adults not blessed with biological children to become "fathers of choice." In an old-fashioned, traditional world, this might not matter. But I think that it's probably going to become terribly relevant as time goes on.

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a world worth living in.

Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is.

I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.

I do not draw any of the pictures for my movies as an animator. The reason for that is that I am terribly lucky to have many staff members who I look up to, and who are overflowing with talent, that work with me on each project.

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.