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"Itoi: The colors for MOTHER were actually a proposal from my designer. He came to me and said, "I've got this option and that option," so I asked him, "Well, what do you think?" and he told me, "Personally, I think this one is the best."

That's generally how I work. I ask the person doing the job. On the surface, it may look like I'm trying to be even-handed or something, but I definitely play favorites. But the thing is, if the person actually doing the work says that's the one!, I can usually get behind it.

You see, someone on the outside looking in might have all kinds of different opinions. Maybe they dislike muted colors, who knows. But when someone actually involved in the project—that is, the designer himself—says they want to do something with a certain level of passion, there's always a reason for it. A deep, fundamental reason. Just like rolling over in your sleep.

—Rolling over?

Itoi: Yeah. I've been making the point lately that rolling over in your sleep isn't a random action; there's a real, fundamental reason behind it.

Itou: Really?

Itoi: Take the way I'm sitting right now… even this pose is a kind of "rolling over in your sleep."

Itou: Ah, I see what you mean.

Itoi: In other words, I'm sitting like this because my body has an actual necessity to be in this posture. It's the result of a struggle between two things: the fact that I'm being watched by others, and my own internal necessity. I believe the future of "creative work" lies in how much we can tap into and breathe life into that kind of raw instinct."

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