“Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.”

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

I think that’s exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.

I intend to work until the day I die.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

Sometimes I test myself saying, ‘If I get a death sentence if I don’t make this movie, would I still make this movie?

Prizes do not mean anything to me.

Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

There cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans.

Whoever falls, hatred will breed hatred.

Logic is using the front part of the brain, that’s all.

You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.

In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way.

Virtual reality is a denial of reality.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

We must not forget that we are a work in progress.

The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.

Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.