I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

I wanted to make a real love story with a bad ending, because a love story that ends good is the life of everyone - you and I, for example. I always say to people, You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them. Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, mama, mama, papa, papa.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.