I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

In other words, I'm not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time.

If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis of the new game.

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniature garden. So, this time also, my challenge was how to make people feel comfortable and sometimes very scared at the same time. That is the big challenge.

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.