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

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.

The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.

It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals.

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

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.