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

- Mamoru Hosoda

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…

- Mamoru Hosoda

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

- Mamoru Hosoda

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…

- Mamoru Hosoda

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…

- Mamoru Hosoda

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 …

- Mamoru Hosoda

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…

- Mamoru Hosoda

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,…

- Mamoru Hosoda

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

- Mamoru Hosoda