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

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

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

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

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…

- 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

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