"You don’t want to be imitating his [Miyazaki] style. You’ve got to create something different, something that he hasn…"

"But I do want to trigger emotions like his [Miyazaki] movies triggered our emotions."

"But... you can’t be Miyazaki, you can only be the second Miyazaki, and that isn’t something to aim for."

"Your Names success told me movies still have the power to connect with society. As a medium, it still has a power tha…"

"I think animation can tell more than live action."

"If I had been born 10 years earlier, I don’t think I would be an animator."

"I consider my anime as if they were children who, once grown up, are free to take their own path and personally I do …"

"It is a part of puberty that we just want to go somewhere far away. We only have a vague image, like behind that moun…"

"But the thing about getting rejected is that you reflect and think and analyze about why you got turned down. You lea…"

"I think most directors and people who make anime would agree that their latest film is probably the one they feel the…"