If you're going to retire, retire early.

I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.

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.

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.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.