Hideaki Anno Quotes

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

Hideaki Anno

#2. 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 your physical needs are met. You can watch different animations and find anything you desire.

Hideaki Anno

#3. God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself
-Misato Katsuragi

Hideaki Anno

#4. Here, there isn't much but stories and rain. And a fella can get tired of the rain.

Tom King

#5. I musn't run away.

Hideaki Anno

#6. We was doing a lot of what our officers called "maneuvering" - which is officer talk for running

David Eddings

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

Hideaki Anno

#8. The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

Euripides

#9. I still contend that Shakespeare is a dirty old man.

Stephanie Riggs

#10. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create a raw landscape within us, a sun eternally setting on what we are. Our sense of ourselves then becomes a deserted field at nightfall, with sad reeds flanking a boatless river, bright in the darkness growing between the distant shores.

Fernando Pessoa

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

Hideaki Anno

#12. Road's in front o' me, Nothin' to do but walk.

Langston Hughes

#13. You're an idiot. Study harder.

Hideaki Anno

#14. If you are made for flight, intended for it,
you had better find a pursuer, fast.
Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.

Dan Chiasson