Do Everything By Hand, Even When Using

Personally I Am Very Pessimistic. But When, For Instance, One Of My Staff Has A Baby You Can't Help But Bless Them For A Good Future. Because I Can't Tell That Child, 'oh, You Shouldn't Have Come Into This Life.' And Yet I Know The World Is Heading In A Bad Direction. So With Those Conflicting Thoughts In Mind, I Think About What Kind Of Films I Should Be Making.

Those Are Shrines. Some People Believe Spirits Live In Them.

It Is The Fate Of Modern Life That We Repeatedly Lose Touch With Nature, The Environment, The Planet. But We Try To Regain It Again And Again. It's Like A Circle. In Children's Hearts And Souls When They're Born Into The World, Nature Already Exists Deep Inside Them. So What I Want To Do In My Work Is Tap Into Their Souls

I Managed To Work For More Than 50 Years With Just Paper, Pencils And Film. My Son's Generation And The One Coming Up After Can't Work With Just Paper And Pencils Any More. I Managed To Avoid Using A Computer. I Don't Even Have A Cellphone. I Feel Lucky I Managed To Live Like That.

Prizes Do Not Mean Anything To Me. I Think It Is More Important To Make A Child Aware Of The Existence Of A Weird Creature Like A Water Spider That Breathes Through Its Backside.