Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead.
Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.
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 seen 30 years ago, with people who grew up under a different system of government. They would have been far too embarrassed to open a book of cartoons or dirty pictures on a train. But that’s what we have now in Japan. We are a country of children.
Evangelion is like a puzzle, you know. Any person can see it and give hisher own answer. In other words, we're offering viewers to think by themselves, so that each person can imagine hisher own world. We will never offer the answers, even in the theatrical version. As for many Evangelion viewers, they may expect us to provide the 'all-about Eva' manuals, but there is no such thing. Don't expect to get answers by someone. Don't expect to be catered to all the time. We all have to find our own answers.
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't so black and white, so think about things on your own and express them in words or pictures. That's how you communicate with people. That's so important.
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 again. It is a story of the will to move forward, even if only a little. It is a story of the resolve to want to be together, even though it is frightening to have contact with others and endure ambiguous loneliness. I would be most gratified if you found enjoyment in these four parts as it takes the same story and metamorphoses it into something different.
Evangelion is my life and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself.
I engage and after that I see what to do.
There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything but.
I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.
When you get a walk-off homer, you get to do whatever you want. You need to be excited about it. You don't get too many of those, so you need to enjoy them when they come.