Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.

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.

The greatest service, you can do, to the existence, is serving yourself. If you serve yourself and take care of, yourself, anything that comes out of you, will add meaning and beauty to life.

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

I remember being away somewhere, and I had forgotten it was Valentine's Day with a person, and that was very embarrassing.

Beautiful music plays, but not everyone with ears can hear it.

Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.

I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.

I wanted to act, dance and perform more than anything, and I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.