Hidden Process Quotes

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

For 'Nier: Automata', I wasn't told to target anyone. I just made what I wanted to, and I tried to stay hidden from Square Enix as much as possible.

Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.

It is not for nothing that titles are decided at the back.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer?

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.