Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is.

People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a world worth living in.

I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.

I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.

I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person.

The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.

It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals.

No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.

What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

You do not know what you will earn tomorrow.

Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.

Love without attachment is light.

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.