Anecdote 2025-06-13
“People sometimes have the fake impression that Hideo is very egotistical, [but] he's someone that changes his mind very intelligently based on what people bring him.”
— Woodkid
What it documents
Woodkid qualified that Kojima does not impose his vision in silence: he listens, shapes his world with the ideas of his teams, maintains control by letting people in, and there is a fake impression that Kojima is very egotistical when in reality he changes his mind very intelligently based on what people bring him.
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“It doesn't mean that he doesn't listen, which is why I think he's a genius. [He's] shaping his world with the ideas of his teams. It's not just him bossing around everything.”