“I pitch the projects myself, too.”
Kojima said he first looked for people who interested him when casting his games, and that he pitched the projects to the actors himself.
“They won't tell me the budget and release dates get announced out of the blue. Or they would suddenly spill the contents of a project during promos. Once they totally gave away spoilers in a magazine interview.”
“So yeah, after going independent, I had nothing. All I had were connections with people, so I followed those connections to make the game.”
“Ourselves, we're like the people who made their own films before making it big in Hollywood. I think we've got the skills we need to make anything we want, anywhere we want, on any budget we want. That's where my pride, or my confidence, comes from.”
“So I went around to different game companies, and partly because I was living in Hyogo prefecture at the time, but I thought I'd check out Konami.”
“They were the kind of people that I wanted to work with. ... I wanted to do something with them that probed slightly deeper.”