“Every society has its outliers. The ones who are never
satisfied with your normal, everyday existence. The ones who lead life to its
fullest extreme, who literally become larger than life. People like Edgar Allen
Poe, Jim Morrison, and Beat Takeshi Kitano. The outlaws. That’s what I am, you
know—an outlaw.”
“The others don’t take that seriously. Most of them are rank
amateurs, to be honest. They talk a great game, and once in a while, one of
them will actually go and destroy a city or two…but those are rare now. It’s
not like the old days, where you couldn’t find a major Japanese metropolis that
hadn’t been flattened by a kaiju. Oh,
how the people would run…”
“And we can’t blame it all on the Americans. A good deal,
yes, but let’s face it—we had to expand into foreign markets, sooner or later.
We had to compromise to do it. And therein lies the great trap that the others
don’t understand. The trap that leads to the horror…the dubbing…”
“I know I’ve paid a price for that—for knowing. But, in the end, somebody has to be at the vanguard. Somebody
needs to take the point. And that’s what I did. I took the point. And they
dropped a bridge onto me for it.”*
“Somebody has to keep it real. And I’m the only one here who
does.”
(* = see The
Mysterians)
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