Q: In the book, you wrote about relationship between Maro and Hono (flame). Taking Hono as heat, or desire to create/express, is this a story about the creator and his motivation. Do you yourself experience fluctuations in your desire to express?
Tori: Yes. I think I'm a pretty uneven type of a person, and I think I'm sometimes high like "Okay, let's do it!" , and sometimes, I'm all low. I still wonder why I can't control it.
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Q: You've been able to manage them up to now.
Tori: Some people are good at turning the switch on and off, but I have a hard time doing it (lol). I have tried various approaches in the past to see how I can switch it on and off when I enter a project. For example, for Rurou no Tsuki, I tried sleeping on the filming set.
Q: I heard you stayed at a hotel in Shibuya to prepare for your role in the movie "Call Boy" and ran simulations for your role in "Intolerance".
Tori: Yes. I do different ways, but I do it for each work.
Q: I also felt from this book that you're always looking for opportunities to ignite your own desire for expression. But you always talk about the importance of "becoming the work". If that's so, it must be contradicting for you to express your "self" as an expressive person.
Tori: Yes, when I participate in a production, I leave my "self" behind. But it's probably just "myself" up to the point where I attempt the work. The choice of the project is the same. Once I participate, I do my best to blend in with the work, as you said, but I have already thought about how I will approach the work, and that kind of "self" decision has already been done before I entered the production.
I've no idea where I want to end. When I think about how I can continue this job, I realize it's all about discovery. I have a theory that if I can discover something new at each project, I'll be able to go places I never imagined. I'm currently exploring this possibility.
Here's his interview in 2012.
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