Miyazaki has a great talent, but I really struggle every time I create a new film and am far from Miyazaki.

You don't want to be imitating his style. Every anime-maker is thinking, 'I can't be too like Miyazaki.'

'Your Name' is a film created with the innate imaginations of a Japanese team and put together in a domestic medium. When such a work is imbued with Hollywood filmmaking, we may see new possibilities that we had been completely unaware of - I am looking forward to the live-action film with excited anticipation.

When you're a teenager, there are more things you don't know than you know, and more people that you haven't met than you have met. I felt that way when I was a teenager, and I think maybe, with my films, I'm targeting grown-ups who remember that feeling.

I personally am not very interested in awards or the awards circuit.

I really wish it would only take two hours to make a two-hour movie.

As soon as I have the idea, I need to create as quickly as possible, because it's what's going on in society, and that's what connects me to my audience.

When I was working at the game company, I wasn't just doing graphic design, I was doing the entire product management, so I would do the graphic design, I would create the advertisements, even the catch copies. I would figure out what kind of packaging and design of the packaging, so I was basically doing total product management at that time.

When I was growing up and until I got married, I had some times when I felt a bit lonely and a little bit isolated - even after I got married.

When I was growing up, I didn't have tons and tons of friends.