Direct quote 2009-11-04
“We're both pretty close to each other in that the movie business has been near and dear to our hearts. The only difference is that he's been able to keep making adventures this whole time.”
What it documents
In 2009 Kojima noted that he and Jiro Ishii are close because the movie business has been near and dear to their hearts, and that the only difference is that Ishii has been able to keep making adventures this whole time; he added that it is funny to think that, in an era when there was nothing but Mario-style games, there was somebody else who wanted to make a Blade Runner-like title, a year before him.
Source
1UP.com, by Kevin Gifford; translation of a talk published in the Japanese magazine Famitsu, 2009-11-04. View source ↗
“It's funny to think that during an era when there was nothing but Mario-style games, there was somebody else out there who wanted to make a Blade Runner-like title, a year before me to boot.”