I think what happened to Hideo Kojima last year was a tragedy, but he…

“couldn't even talk to them – he had to talk through someone else. That's how that game was finished.”

“Last year, I thought I lost everything. But I didn't.”

“Hideo, what you're making is already a movie. Keep going as you are.”

“I want to die making something.”

During his creative work, Kojima said he sometimes suffers intense feelings of isolation, stress, and doubt. He is saved by knowing that writers, directors, artists, or other people committed to creating connections exist; their struggles become stories that relieve his loneliness. Likewise, an extraordinary work produced in a faraway country shows him that he can still keep trying.