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

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

- 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

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

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

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…

- Mamoru Hosoda

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…

- Mamoru Hosoda