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

In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.

Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.

There has never been a work of art created which didn’t somehow reflect its own time.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

Engineers turn dreams into reality.

Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.

See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”

I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.

I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams.

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.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Tears are the root of happiness.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

The only thing power respects, is power.