“There are all kinds of values within the films but I don’t make message films.”

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.

Hits and flops are overrated.

I got scars from every film I’ve done, every TV show.

The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.

All my films are all my children.

No one can guarantee success of a film.

I used to enjoy the spotlight. If I had a day off from filming, I didn’t know what to do.

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before ‘Queen,’ but now things have changed a lot.

I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.