Kojima said he wants to make music because, deep down, he wants to do everything himself, but he cannot get anything to come out. He sometimes thinks he has composed a melody when singing to himself and later discovers, to his disappointment, that it was a song he had already heard.
“Then, I'll play a soundtrack that matches that, and the writing just happens naturally. It's like I'm not myself almost.”
“I want people to end up liking things they didn't like when they first encountered it, because that's where you really end up loving something.”
“What I really wanted to do is something like what they did with Tom and Jerry, with the orchestra watching the performances and timing their music to the actions with symbols and stuff. I want to do that with games so that the music changes in time with what the player is doing.”
“Having one song in the game is expected, right? So what if we had you make like 100 songs or something? I don't know, but just something no one else is doing.”
“Movies and music existed separately, but he made them into one entity. That's why I want to emulate him and combine film and video games into one.”