I Like Underwater Life.

Many Of My Movies Have Strong Female Leads - Brave, Self-sufficient Girls That Don't Think Twice About Fighting For What They Believe In With All Their Heart. They'll Need A Friend, Or A Supporter, But Never A Savior. Any Woman Is Just As Capable Of Being A Hero As Any Man.

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.

Always Believe In Yourself. Do This And No Matter Where You Are, You Will Have Nothing To Fear.

The Characters Are Born From Repetition, From Repeatedly Thinking About Them. I Have Their Outline In My Head. I Become The Character And As The Character I Visit The Locations Of The Story Many, Many Times. Only After That I Start Drawing The Character, But Again I Do It Many, Many Times, Over And Over. And I Only Finish Just Before The Deadline.

To Be Born Means Being Compelled To Choose An Era, A Place, A Life. To Exist Here, Now, Means To Lost The Possibility Of Being Countless Other Potential Selves.. Yet Once Being Born There Is No Turning Back. And I Think That's Exactly Why The Fantasy Worlds Of Cartoon Movies So Strongly Represent Our Hopes And Yearnings. They Illustrate A World Of Lost Possibilities For Us.