I can`t believe companies distribute my movies in America. They`re baffling in Japan! I`m well aware there are spots . . . where I`m going to lose the audience . . . Well, it`s magic. I don`t provide unnecessary explanations. If you want that, you`re not ...
When I think about the way the computer has taken over and eliminated a certain experience of life, that makes me sad. When we were animating fire some staff said they had never seen wood burning. I said, "Go watch!" It has disappeared from their daily li...
When I talk about traditions, I`m not talking about temples, which we got from China anyway. There is an indigenous Japan, and elements of that are what I`m trying to capture in my work.
[asked about his work`s role in modern pop-culture] The truth is I have watched almost none of it. The only images I watch regularly come from the weather report.