Hideaki Anno Quotes

• Evangelion is like a puzzle, you know. Any person can see it and give his/her own answer. In other words, we're offering viewers to think by themselves, so that each person can imagine his/her own world. We will never offer the answers, even in the theatrical version. As for many Evangelion viewers, they may expect us to provide the 'all-about Eva' manuals, but there is no such thing. Don't expect to get answers by someone. Don't expect to be catered to all the time. We all have to find our own answers.

  Hideaki Anno

  Thinking, Offering, Giving

  "About Neon Genesis Evangelion". Newtype in Protoculture Addicts #43, 11\96,

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• In school tests, there's only one answer for each question, and you might get zero or half points if you're wrong. But in the real world, things aren't so black and white, so think about things on your own and express them in words or pictures. That's how you communicate with people. That's so important.

  Hideaki Anno

  Zero, Real, School

  "Buried Treasure". www.animenewsnetwork.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back up again. It is a story of the will to move forward, even if only a little. It is a story of the resolve to want to be together, even though it is frightening to have contact with others and endure ambiguous loneliness. I would be most gratified if you found enjoyment in these four parts as it takes the same story and metamorphoses it into something different.

  Hideaki Anno

  Loneliness, Moving, Together

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• Evangelion is my life and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself.

  Hideaki Anno

  Knows

  "About Neon Genesis Evangelion". Newtype in Protoculture Addicts #43, 11\96,

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• You're an idiot. Study harder.

  Hideaki Anno

  Study, Idiot, Harder

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• The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you wouldn’t have seen 30 years ago, with people who grew up under a different system of government. They would have been far too embarrassed to open a book of cartoons or dirty pictures on a train. But that’s what we have now in Japan. We are a country of children.

  Hideaki Anno

  Country, Children, Dirty

  "Let’s Die Together". www.theatlantic.com. May, 2007.

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• Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

  Hideaki Anno

  Stories, Alive, Film

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• It's strange that ''Evangelion'' has become such a hit - all the characters are so sick!

  Hideaki Anno

  Character, Sick, Strange

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• Characters in animation do not cheat. They do not let you go for another. Animation is on certain points, very close to the pornography industry. All your physical needs are met. You can watch different animations and find anything you desire.

  Hideaki Anno

  Character, Desire, Different

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