“We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.”

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.

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.

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

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.

We are not going to give up, there are many more who want to live in a world in peace, without hatred and where respect and tolerance are the bases of coexistence.

Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves until we end hatred and division.

I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

A man’s hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.