“The villains are all parts of me.”

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking – thinking about my stories for a long time.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it’s an old system that we can’t control.

Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.

Yet once being born there is no turning back.

I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue.

We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.

Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.

All my films are all my children.

Young people are surrounded by virtual things. Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

I think it’s really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.

It’s not very pleasant to draw evil figures.

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

I can’t stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.