I Like Underwater Life.

Prizes Do Not Mean Anything To Me. I Think It Is More Important To Make A Child Aware Of The Existence Of A Weird Creature Like A Water Spider That Breathes Through Its Backside.

What You Mean By 'peace' Is Nothing More Than The Endless Repetition Of Human Folly.

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.

It Is The Fate Of Modern Life That We Repeatedly Lose Touch With Nature, The Environment, The Planet. But We Try To Regain It Again And Again. It's Like A Circle. In Children's Hearts And Souls When They're Born Into The World, Nature Already Exists Deep Inside Them. So What I Want To Do In My Work Is Tap Into Their Souls

Almost All Japanese Animation Is Produced With Hardly Any Basis Taken From Observing Real People, You Know. It's Produced By Humans Who Can't Stand Looking At Other Humans. And That's Why The Industry Is Full Of Otaku!