All My Films Are All My Children.

I Get Inspiration From My Everyday Life.

I Make Films As A Business, Not As A Cultural Endeavor.

I’d Like To See Manhattan Underwater. I’d Like To See When The Human Population Plummets And There Are No More High Rises, Because Nobody’s Buying Them. I’m Excited About That. Money And Desire—all That Is Going To Collapse, And Wild Green Grasses Are Going To Take Over.

But Remember This, Japanese Boy... Airplanes Are Not Tools For War. They Are Not For Making Money. Airplanes Are Beautiful Dreams. Engineers Turn Dreams Into Reality.

In Fact, I Am A Pessimist. But When I'm Making A Film, I Don't Want To Transfer My Pessimism Onto Children. I Keep It At Bay. I Don't Believe That Adults Should Impose Their Vision Of The World On Children, Children Are Very Much Capable Of Forming Their Own Visions. There's No Need To Force Our Own Visions Onto Them.