Akira Toriyama Quotes

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

I used to watch, on television on Sunday nights, they had the Disney hour then and the castle coming up and 'When you wish upon a star... ' That was my very first Disney memory.

I remember seeing my first Disney film when I was 13 or 14. It was 'Jungle Book,' and I remember really falling in love with it.

I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me.

The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.

My most visceral childhood memory is getting home from hockey. Much of our family time revolved around hockey, and it rains a lot in Perth, and we'd get home tired and wet in our tracksuits, and the smell I'd hold in my nose is of mother's vegetable soup.

I was a big fan of sketch comedy and cartoons growing up.

I love a bicycle, and I haven't been without at least one since I was three years old.

One of my biggest and most influential was 'The Golden Girls.' That show, I remember specific episodes.

I am a firm believer that the craziest stories that have been told and are being told are in anime. They have character arcs that go over, like, 400 episodes, like a 400-episode character arc.

Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.

The work that has influenced me the most in my anime profession would be, of course, 'Blade Runner.'

There's a lot of possibility in the 'Pacific Rim' universe for additional stories to be told, whether that's additional graphic novels or animated series or video games or movie sequels.

I remember my first shin pads had the Brazilian Ronaldo on them, and I loved them.

As a child, I think everybody imitates their favorite cartoon character in some form or another when they're playing.

I remember when I went to see Led Zeppelin live in 1979 at Knebworth, there were certain songs that stood out to me and will stay with me forever.

To me, the thing about anime is that it's so adult-oriented. I remember going to Suncoast growing up, and you see 'Akira' there with the little 'Not for Kids' sticker on it. That always made an impact on me.

'Futurama' is this awesome, animated sci-fi show.

I saw 'Beauty and the Beast' at eight years old in theatres and spent hours trying to recreate the majestic imagery of that story in a drawing notepad at home.

We've all been there - you find something moving, you commission a painting. I know one wall of my living room is taken up by a mural of the end of Toy Story 3.

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees.

I grew up watching sci-fi and Justice League and all those kinds of things.

My first movie I saw when I was a kid was 'The Jungle Book.' I was 5 years old, and I saw it in a movie theater. Seeing that movie really lit the fuse and ignited my passion for animation.

My mom used to call me Joshy Boucher. I watched 'The Waterboy' so much, my mom started calling me Joshy Boucher. True story.

My school trip to Jaipur was the most memorable one as I tried many things for the first time.