Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.
Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
We each need to find our own inspiration. Sometimes it is not easy.
Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them – waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.
See with eyes unclouded by hate.
Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.
Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
I can’t stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
I’ve never studied psychology.
I like underwater life.
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it’s an old system that we can’t control.
My process is thinking, thinking and thinking – thinking about my stories for a long time.
When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.
When a man is shooting a handgun, it’s just like he is shooting because that’s his job, and he has no other choice. It’s no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it’s really something.
Chihiro, huh? Her real name’s Chihiro? Can’t beat the power of love.
Cut off a wolf’s head and it still has the power to bite.
At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.