In school tests, there's only one answer for each question, and you might get zero or half points if you're wrong. But in the real world, things aren…

- Hideaki Anno

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

- Hideaki Anno

The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you wouldn’t have…

- Hideaki Anno

It's strange that ''Evangelion'' has become such a hit - all the characters are so sick!

- Hideaki Anno

Evangelion is my life and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself.

- Hideaki Anno

Characters in animation do not cheat. They do not let you go for another. Animation is on certain points, very close to the pornography industry. All…

- Hideaki Anno

Evangelion 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 themselv…

- Hideaki Anno

Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back up aga…

- Hideaki Anno

You're an idiot. Study harder.

- Hideaki Anno