“僕のゲームもジョージ・ミラー監督からいろいろな遺伝子を受け継いで作られているんです。ミラー監督がいたから僕がいるというか” JA Original quote in Japanese; the summary below carries the meaning.
While meeting George Miller in Japan during the promotion of Mad Max: Fury Road, Kojima told him that his games are made inheriting various genes from the director, and that if he exists it is because Miller existed.
“He is my God, and the SAGA that he tells is my Bible”
“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.”
“If Scorsese's doing it, I can't criticize Scorsese. He's the second god. The first is George Miller.”
“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.”
“My generation really took a lot from the cinema, and much of that remains an unconscious influence on what we make today. I like to call it our "cinema DNA."”