I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

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.

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.

Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.

Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside.

It is the fate of modern life that we repeatedly lose touch with nature, the environment, the planet. But we try to regain it again and again. It's like a circle. In children's hearts and souls when they're born into the world, nature already exists deep inside them. So what I want to do in my work is tap into their souls

In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.