Hideo Kojima Best Quotes & Sayings

I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over. — 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

The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film — Hideo Kojima

90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology. — Hideo Kojima

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes. — Hideo Kojima

As a creator, I always want to betray fans' expectations. — Hideo Kojima

Gamers should be able to take the experience with them in their living rooms, on the go, when they travel
wherever they are and whenever they want to play. It should be the same software and the same experience, — Hideo Kojima

Japanese gamers aren't really into action games right now. They're into role-playing or strategy games with a lot of stats, but action titles are still really popular across the US and Europe. — Hideo Kojima

My goal is to make a player think, 'I want to reenter this world of lies tomorrow.' — Hideo Kojima

This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can do. — Hideo Kojima

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads? — Hideo Kojima

My problem is that whenever I shoot, I do it Bruce Willis "Die Hard" style - in a very cinematic fashion. — 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

Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor. — Hideo Kojima

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

Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. And when you do - pass it on to the future. — 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

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

I want to continue making things. — Hideo Kojima

Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners. — Hideo Kojima

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

War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot. — 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

You have to be very careful when you're working on a sequel, because it has to be a continuation of what you did before. — Hideo Kojima

In the near future, we'll have games that don't depend on any platform, — Hideo Kojima

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too. — Hideo Kojima

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old. — Hideo Kojima

We might compare each day's decisions with the work of steering a boat. Our efforts will result in nebulous confusion if we make a wrong move at any point, even if it's only a small tack to the side. We absolutely cannot afford carelessness, lest we risk becoming lost ourselves. — Hideo Kojima

My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power. — Hideo Kojima

I don't really want to be a celebrity. — Hideo Kojima