Humans Have Both The Urge To Create

The Principle I Adhere To When Directing, Is That I Make Good Use Of Everything My Staff Creates. Even If They Make Foregrounds That Don't Quite Fit With My Backgrounds, I Never Waste It And Try To Find The Best Use For It.

In Our Work, The Question Is, How Much You Absorb From Others. So For Me, Creativity, Is Really Like A Relay Race. As Children We Are Handed A Baton. Rather Than Passing It Onto The Next Generation As Is, First We Need To Digest It And Make It Our Own.

If [hand-drawn Animation] Is A Dying Craft, We Can't Do Anything About It. Civilization Moves On. Where Are All The Fresco Painters Now? Where Are The Landscape Artists? What Are They Doing Now? The World Is Changing. I Have Been Very Fortunate To Be Able To Do The Same Job For 40 Years. That's Rare In Any Era.

I Think It's Really Good For A Family Or Children To Have A Dog, Cat, Bird Or Whatever To Grow Up With.

I Don't Intentionally Make Deep Movies.