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.

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.

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 really am grateful to have so many people watch, and to be given the chance to create my next projects. I want to once again tackle the boundless possibilities of animated movies, and I hope to be able to create something that will leave both children and adults thinking that this world is a sparkling, brightly shining place.

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

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