One may not be able to fulfill a fatherly role with one's own child, but on the other hand, and this goes for me as well, one might still be a "fathe….

The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the p….

I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do..

Digging back through the events of the past, I found that there have been all sorts of people who had a greater effect on us than our own fathers. Pe….

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way..

It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more ….

I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them..

We are on the verge of losing the traditional idea of the family, especially in Japan, where the declining birth rate shows no signs of stopping. Thi….

As far as CGI and hand-drawn animation, I consider them both nothing more than tools for drawing pictures, the same as crayons or oils. Which is why,….

I do not draw any of the pictures for my movies as an animator. The reason for that is that I am terribly lucky to have many staff members who I look….

People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any falsehood, and t….

I was deliberately trying to express how possible it might be for unmarried men and adults not blessed with biological children to become "fathers of….

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a w….

I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person..

I really am grateful to have so many people watch, and to be given the chance to create my next projects. I want to once again tackle the boundless p….

Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is..