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Hideo Kojima Quotes

My biggest failure is ‘Metal Gear.’ It’s my biggest failure and my biggest success.

– Hideo Kojima

I believe the game should really feel what the players are feeling and change according to that.

– Hideo Kojima

Many people are taking 2D games and making them into 3D games by recreating the characters in polygons. But the gameplay’s still the same, and that’s not what they should be doing.

– Hideo Kojima

In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.

– Hideo Kojima

Every time I make a new game, I put all of my effort completely into that game. It’s like putting all your effort into a new child that’s being born. Once the project is done, I can step back and look at it objectively, which is when I can see a lot of flaws. That’s when I start to make a new game that tries to fix some of those flaws.

– Hideo Kojima

Even when people abroad see me, I’m often asked about a ‘Zone of the Enders’ sequel.

– Hideo Kojima

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.

– Hideo Kojima

My goal is to make a player think, ‘I want to reenter this world of lies tomorrow.’

– Hideo Kojima

With a movie, it’s probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player.

– Hideo Kojima

There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art.

– Hideo Kojima

I won’t make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war.

– Hideo Kojima

I want to continue making things.

– Hideo Kojima

My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn’t just show me kids’ films.

– Hideo Kojima

What I’m really trying to do is create unique characters.

– Hideo Kojima

I have always had a fascination about what’s inside a human being.

– Hideo Kojima

There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones.

– Hideo Kojima

I believe that this cooperation between Nokia and Konami will form the perfect match to share the vast potential of mobile entertainment content with users all around the world.

– Hideo Kojima

I don’t really want to be a celebrity.

– Hideo Kojima

My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you’d be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game.

– Hideo Kojima

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn’t come into work.

– Hideo Kojima

In any game, you have an enemy coming at yourself that you have to shoot. If you go back to ‘Space Invaders,’ they shoot at you when they come at you, so how are you going to protect yourself? You’re going to shoot, and that is a typical videogame.

– Hideo Kojima

Games shouldn’t only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

– Hideo Kojima

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn’t go into the film industry.

– Hideo Kojima

As a creator, I always want to betray fans’ expectations.

– Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I’m not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

– Hideo Kojima

In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I’d fall into these ditches because I was lost in stories as I was walking along. It’s still dangerous for me to drive. I’ve driven into the gate outside my house numerous times.

– Hideo Kojima

I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn’t been interested in and cultural things I hadn’t been aware of and economic factors I hadn’t thought about.

– Hideo Kojima

People nowadays don’t know about the Cold War and the U.S.’s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

– Hideo Kojima

I always observe the people who pass by when I ride an escalator. I’ll never see most of them again, so I imagine a lot of things about their lives… about the day ahead of them.

– Hideo Kojima

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

– Hideo Kojima

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