One may not be able to fulfill a fatherly role with one's own child, but on the other hand, and this goes for me as well, one might still be a "father of choice" to someone else out there in the world. Fatherhood is something that can be shared worldwide. Meaning that in terms of the substance of a father's role, perhaps we are all pseudo-fathers.
Mamoru HosodaThe 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.
Mamoru HosodaPeople who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any falsehood, and they think that it's in their inner feelings that the truth lies. But I don't think that's the truth.
Mamoru HosodaI think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.
Mamoru HosodaI 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.
Mamoru Hosoda