From the article:

Mobile Suit Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino spoke at Seien Girls’ High School last month after being contacted on behalf of a student passionate about Gundam. She and her fellow students wanted industry figures to share how to make dreams come true, with their wish eventually reaching Tomino.

One of the questions addressed to Tomino included his view on life and death, to which he replied:

“Death is within my reach. I think it’s a good thing to be able to face death peacefully. I want to face death head-on. Rather than leaving something tangible behind, I’ve come to think that I want to create something that can be passed on to the next generation. It may not be something that connects with people now, but the next generation should understand it. I believe that the message of ‘Reconguista in G’ will have been conveyed 30 years from now. I hope that the future will be different from the Earth today.”

Here is the original source (in Japanese).