"People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages."
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"My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time."
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"In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations."
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"I'd like more of the world go back to being wild."
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"Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over."
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"I think talent decides everything. More than the method, what's important is the talent using it. There's nothing inherently wrong or right about a method, whether it be pencil drawings or 3-D CG. Pencil drawings don't have to go away, but those who continue to use the medium lack talent. So sadly, it will fade away."
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"Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene."
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"Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish."
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"To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures."
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"At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these."
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"Humans have both the urge to create and destroy."
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"I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily."
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"Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world."
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"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."
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"I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away"."
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"I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time."
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"If you're going to retire, retire early."
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"You should despair and run away."
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"Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about."
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"We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation."
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