“Yet once being born there is no turning back.”

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.

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.

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

You’ve got every right to a beautiful life.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

The party’s just getting started. This is where the fun starts.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.