I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

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.

When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.

I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

All my films are all my children.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it.

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

I like underwater life.

I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

I'm not a collector.

It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'

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.

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

But remember this Japanese boy airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making mone. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

In this world of ours the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.

I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.

In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.

Life is a winking light in the darkness.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.