I think what a lot of people see as unique is using different technology or different techniques [to make games], but I feel like, as long as you have a core that's unlike others, that's what 'unique' is.

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.