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.

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.

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

People 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.

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

I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.

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