With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a world worth living in.

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.

I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.

I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.

Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is.

I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person.

The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.

It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you.

There are only two emotions. Love and fear.... Love and fear is all there is == Everything else is just an offshoot motivated by those two.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.

That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.

My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.