Any Woman Is Just As Capable Of

Personally I Am Very Pessimistic. But When, For Instance, One Of My Staff Has A Baby You Can't Help But Bless Them For A Good Future. Because I Can't Tell That Child, 'oh, You Shouldn't Have Come Into This Life.' And Yet I Know The World Is Heading In A Bad Direction. So With Those Conflicting Thoughts In Mind, I Think About What Kind Of Films I Should Be Making.

Reality Is For People That Lack Imagination.

I'm Not Going To Make Movies That Tell Children, "you Should Despair And Run Away".

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.

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.