When we're doing an action game, we make the second level first. We begin making level 1 once everything else is completed.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.

We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention to whether people liked it. We read through it and see it, but we don't take it into consideration. ... [The Internet] is not going to dictate the direction of where the game goes.

When I'm working on games I don't think necessarily about what the end benefit of the game is going to be. Typically I'm trying to think of: "What can I do that is going to find new ways to entertain and surprise people."

Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!