I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them. — Mamoru Hosoda Animation Copy Share Image
With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them… — Mamoru Hosoda Animation Copy Share Image
Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is. — Mamoru Hosoda People Copy Share Image
As far as CGI and hand-drawn animation, I consider them both nothing more than tools for drawing pictures, the same as crayons… — Mamoru Hosoda Animation Copy Share Image
Digging back through the events of the past, I found that there have been all sorts of people who had a greater… — Mamoru Hosoda Adults Copy Share Image
I do not draw any of the pictures for my movies as an animator. The reason for that is that I am… — Mamoru Hosoda Animation Copy Share Image
We are on the verge of losing the traditional idea of the family, especially in Japan, where the declining birth rate shows… — Mamoru Hosoda Birth Copy Share Image
People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any… — Mamoru Hosoda Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies… — Mamoru Hosoda Change Copy Share Image
I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person. — Mamoru Hosoda Aspect Copy Share Image
People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly… — Mamoru Hosoda Firsts Copy Share Image
“I want to learn more and more. The more I know, the more I see a brand-new world.” — Mamoru Hosoda A-new-world Copy Share Image
“I have lived knowing nothing of the forest so there is nothing I can teach you. Go into the wild. Know the… — Mamoru Hosoda Forests Copy Share Image
The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation… — Mamoru Hosoda Adventure Copy Share Image
It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in… — Mamoru Hosoda Animal Copy Share Image
I was deliberately trying to express how possible it might be for unmarried men and adults not blessed with biological children to… — Mamoru Hosoda Adults Copy Share Image
One may not be able to fulfill a fatherly role with one's own child, but on the other hand, and this goes… — Mamoru Hosoda Able Copy Share Image
I really am grateful to have so many people watch, and to be given the chance to create my next projects. I… — Mamoru Hosoda Able Copy Share Image
