Quotes from Hideaki Anno

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

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

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

I musn't run away.

I wish that I could turn back time cause now the guilt is all mine can't live without the trust from those you love I know we can't forget the past you can't forget love & pride because of that, it's killing me inside - Mike Wyzgowski (interpreted)

Those who hate themselves, cannot love or trust others.

What's wrong with running away from reality if it sucks?!

Are you afraid of other people? I know that by keeping others at a distance you avoid a betrayal of your trust, but you must endure the loneliness. Man can never completely erase this sadness, because all men are fundamentally alone. Pain is something man must carry in his heart, and since the heart feels pain so easily, some believe that life is pain.

One cannot turn back the clock but one can move it forward. (Gendo Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ep. 22, 23:55)

Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I?

It is my destiny to live forever, though my survival will bring final destruction to the human race. However, it is possible for me to be killed, and whether I live or die makes no great difference. In truth, death may be the only absolute freedom there is.

Childeren are much better at bringing out what they have imagined in their heads. Ä°t's much more straightforward. They don't try to do a good job. Ä°t's nice, isn't it ? Because it's pure, innocent. Ä°t's a part of me that's been lost.

Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire. He creates life by diminishing the Darkness.

I'm often told that those who don't like themselves set high expectations for themselves, but ? think people who say that don't really understand how painful it is.

At school, your tests only have one right answer and you might get zero or half points if you put the wrong answer. But in what we call ''the real world'', things aren't so black and white, so you should think about things for yourself and express them in words or pictures. This is how you comminicate with people, with other people.