I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

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

So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.

When I look around and see how aged cartoonists continue to work on their manga and how movie directors create new movies all the time, I understand that they would never retire. And by the same token, I guess I will still be making games somehow. The only question is whether the younger people will be willing to work with me at that far point in the future.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.