"When looking through a screen it becomes so much easier to be selective about what truly is "reality". in its abstraction, we make it realer than when its right there staring back at us. something only matters if we cant make it not matter. and then its everything that matters. we're all just trying to keep a comfortable distance otherwise. even in warfare. and then that distance gets sold back to us. we won't ever know how much of our foundations are built on lies someone else told themself to feel better."
"I've been living in Tokyo for forty-some years. It's easy to think that this is an uninteresting city, or that you want to destroy it. The most frustrating thing I feel when I watch movies such as Akira is that they destroy Tokyo so easily. If you depict it as a city which you won't miss even if it were destroyed, as a fake thing made from only steel and concrete from the beginning, destroying it won't accomplish anything. It's far from being a real catharsis. Even in Tokyo, if you look carefully, if you dig up your memories, you can find some scenery which you are very much attracted to. It can be the evening at the train crossing, or it can be scenery of some vacant land with Seitaka-awadachisou in Tokyo Bay area. We have scenery we love inside of us."
