If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

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

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

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.

Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.