Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.
When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me.
I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.
There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that’s just a log raft that we can row by hand.
Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can’t help but bless them for a good future. Because I can’t tell that child, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t have come into this life.’ And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.
Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.
The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.
You may not like what’s happening, but just accept it, and let’s try to live together. Even if you feel angry, let’s be patient and endure, let’s try to live together. I’ve realized that this is the only way forward.
Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.
In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.
Problems begin the moment we’re born. We’re born with infinite possibilities, only to give up on one after another. To choose one thing means to give up another. That’s inevitable. But what can you do? That’s what it is to live.
Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.
Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
To have a film where there’s an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that’s one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it’s not very pleasant to draw evil figures.
Danger doesn’t always come from the enemy.
Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.
These days, there are angry ghosts all around us, dead from wars, sickness, starvation – and nobody cares. So you say you’re under a curse? Well, so what? So’s the whole damned world.
The winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It’s never unscathed.
Whoever falls, hatred will breed hatred.