Able Quote by Mamoru Hosoda

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

— Mamoru Hosoda

“I want to learn more and more. The more I know, the more I see a brand-new world.”

— Mamoru Hosoda

People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any falsehood, and…

— Mamoru Hosoda

Digging back through the events of the past, I found that there have been all sorts of people who had a greater effect on…

— Mamoru Hosoda

As far as CGI and hand-drawn animation, I consider them both nothing more than tools for drawing pictures, the same as crayons or oils.…

— Mamoru Hosoda

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

— Mamoru Hosoda

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that…

— Mamoru Hosoda

I do not draw any of the pictures for my movies as an animator. The reason for that is that I am terribly lucky…

— Mamoru Hosoda

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

— Mamoru Hosoda

We are on the verge of losing the traditional idea of the family, especially in Japan, where the declining birth rate shows no signs…

— Mamoru Hosoda

One may not be able to fulfill a fatherly role with one's own child, but on the other hand, and this goes for me…

— Mamoru Hosoda

It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very…

— Mamoru Hosoda