It's strange that ''Evangelion'' has become such a hit - all the characters are so sick!
Hideaki AnnoEvangelion is my life and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself.
Hideaki AnnoEvangelion 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 AnnoThe fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you wouldnโt 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 thatโs what we have now in Japan. We are a country of children.
Hideaki Anno