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.
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 have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.
Mamoru HosodaUsually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is.
Mamoru HosodaI want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.
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