Direct quote 1999
“We talked movies on that staircase for hours. You said you didn't mind waiting if it was a movie you really wanted to see. I guessed then, that here's a guy with the same DNA as me.”
What it documents
Kojima said he met Yasumi Matsuno at the 1998 Tokyo Fantastic International Movie Festival, waiting almost eight hours on a spiral staircase to see the premiere of Vampires; they talked for hours about movies, Matsuno said he did not mind waiting if it was a movie he really wanted to see, and Kojima then guessed he had found someone with the same DNA as himself.
Source
shmuplations.com; Matsuno × Kojima conversation (1999), unofficial English translation. View source ↗
“I first met Matsuno at the 1998 Tokyo Fantastic International Movie Festival. I was standing in line to see the premiere of Vampires at the Shibuya Parthenon… I was waiting on that spiral staircase there for 8 almost hours. (laughs)”