According to Vulture, Kojima edits his own trailers for his games, a task typically handled by ad agencies.
“Kojima, a workaholic, edits his own trailers, a task typically farmed out to ad agencies”
“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.”
“I pitch the projects myself, too.”
Kojima is a video game designer, writer, director, and producer, best known for the Metal Gear franchise and for Death Stranding; he heads his own independent studio, Kojima Productions.
“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.”
“I create films and art within the medium of games. This is not a conscious choice, it is simply an inevitable result.”