I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

I like underwater life.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

And I choose to be aloneRather than wrapped in arms I could never need.

To know what to do with time is to convert a day and to convert a day is to produce a product.

'The Third Man, ' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made.

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people's minds and lives.