Direct quote 2025-08-27
“we've actually never spoken together. [I] don't speak Japanese and Hideo doesn't speak English. So, we communicate through music and images, through emotions rather than words”
— Nicolas Winding Refn
What it documents
Nicolas Winding Refn described his first meeting with Kojima as a blind date and said that, despite years of friendship, they have never actually spoken together: he does not speak Japanese and Kojima does not speak English, so they communicate with music and images rather than words.
Source
Rolling Stone, 2025-08-27. View source ↗