I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

I like underwater life.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you.

The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.

Friendships are nice. So is competence.

Love people who hate you and their hatred won’t get grounds to gain roots.

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can establish peace on earth.

I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting but I try not to look like it

Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.