“I probably have the most fun thinking up original vehicles. I usually ...” — Akira Toriyama Quote

I probably have the most fun thinking up original vehicles. I usually consider details such as how to get into them and where their engines are. When you draw a real-world car, you have to obtain some references. I'd hate to have someone point out that I'm wrong. But if it's something I invented, I can have it my way.

I believe that comics are entirely for entertainment.

I think it's best to know about lots of different things besides comics. I don't think you can become a cartoonist if you look at nothing but cartoons.

It's been a habit of mine since childhood to always be looking around. When I go shopping, I have more fun observing the town than shopping.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of setting are minimal.

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.