You Should Despair And Run Away.

[on The Future Of Hand-drawn Animation] I'm Actually Not That Worried. I Wouldn't Give Up On It Completely. Once In A While There Are Strange, Rich People Who Like To Invest In Odd Things. You're Going To Have People In The Corners Of Garages Making Cartoons To Please Themselves. And I'm More Interested In Those People Than I Am In Big Business.

But Remember This, Japanese Boy... Airplanes Are Not Tools For War. They Are Not For Making Money. Airplanes Are Beautiful Dreams. Engineers Turn Dreams Into Reality.

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

To Be Born Means Being Compelled To Choose An Era, A Place, A Life. To Exist Here, Now, Means To Lost The Possibility Of Being Countless Other Potential Selves.. Yet Once Being Born There Is No Turning Back. And I Think That's Exactly Why The Fantasy Worlds Of Cartoon Movies So Strongly Represent Our Hopes And Yearnings. They Illustrate A World Of Lost Possibilities For Us.

The Characters Are Born From Repetition, From Repeatedly Thinking About Them. I Have Their Outline In My Head. I Become The Character And As The Character I Visit The Locations Of The Story Many, Many Times. Only After That I Start Drawing The Character, But Again I Do It Many, Many Times, Over And Over. And I Only Finish Just Before The Deadline.