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

Airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

You always have to appeal to your audience.

If you’re going to retire, retire early.

I’ve never studied psychology.

To young people, anime is something they incorporate into this private world.

AI animation is, “is an insult to life itself.

When I say ‘hero’, do not picture someone with strength to fight and conquer evil – because evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated. Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans.

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

I don’t like games. You’re robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

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.

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.

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — [‘Treason!’ cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.

Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.