If you're going to retire, retire early.

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.

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence

Beware of corporate government cops.

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.

I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.

I don't have a problem expressing myself.

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.