The villains are all parts of me. For years I’ve been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character’s side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.
I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It’s too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.
I don’t intentionally make deep movies.
Maybe that’s what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child.
Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.
You should despair and run away.
If you’re going to retire, retire early.
I think it’s really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.
All my films are all my children.
I don’t like games. You’re robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.
People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
What you mean by ‘peace’ is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.
I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.
Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.
You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don’t get too down about it. It’s something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.
I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son’s generation and the one coming up after can’t work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don’t even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.
Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.
The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.