Ishirō Honda

"I don't really have a positive or negative opinion about them . The special effects technically are very sophisticated, but the films lack imagination. It seems as if all Toho is trying to do is show …"

"Godzilla was a product of the times. There previously had been no monster like him. So, people were frightened, and shocked, by him. Now, when Godzilla appears in a city, most of the buildings are eve…"

"The original idea was to show all of the monsters. We then started thinking about undersea farming. Eventually, we came up with the idea of an island on which all of the monsters had been collected fo…"

"The intention of not only the screenwriter, but also the entire production staff, was to focus on how people would react if a creature such as Godzilla really did appear. What would the politicians do…"

"Ghidrah was merely meant to be a modern interpretation of the eight-headed snake of Japanese myth."

"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy, they are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but because of their size…"