That's an interesting quote from Anno, honestly kind of insightful cause its very difficult to gauge Anno's own personal beliefs, political or otherwise, based on his works. Interesting to me in the context of his first work Gunbuster which can be seen as pretty nationalistic in a certain light, considering there's an extremely subtle hint in some background info that it takes place in a reality where Japan won the Pacific War. Though fairly that was almost 40 years ago and before he felt like his life collapsed. Japanese alienation and art about it is particularly interesting to me, not necessarily for their conclusions cause they generally tend to have pretty reactionary slants, but because of the contrast between rightful hatred of the united states and a past that they outright refuse to engage with. Which of course is probably going to come to head in an awful way.

Also as somebody kinda mentioned below, I find it really funny that people always claim that the Christian imagery In Evangelion was put there because it looks cool, but it's all associated with the angels which are a literal alien entity coming to wipe out all of humanity based around the dominant religion of the west.