Don't uncork what you can't contain.

Can you keep up with the lingo.

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I f….

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace..

Where I create, there I am true..

If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level..

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a….

How small a thought it takes to fill a life..

I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer….

Your patience will be rewarded..

For me, trying to expand the energy to make one movie in Hollywood would be the equivalent in terms of energy to making 10 movies in Japan..

I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I haven't changed one b….

I don't back down for anybody..

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there..

Like readily consorts with like..

Here is an unfenced existance.

Those who will not start, will never finish..

So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp..

We're all looking for something, something to be..

The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The mang….

I never thought of myself as a writer..