Quotes from 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.

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

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.

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.

My games are rather stressful games, where you have to play for a long time.

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

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.

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

When I was a child, there really weren't very many video games, but I do have memories of 'Pong.' Maybe it was 'Pong.' It was a home system in Japan, so maybe it wasn't the real 'Pong.' It was just sort of a Japanese game that was similar to 'Pong.'

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world at all costs.

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

It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

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