“People think I just want to be famous, right? But no—I want to raise the bar for gaming, and game creators.”
Kojima said people think he just wants to be famous, but that is not the case; he wants to raise the bar for gaming and for game creators.
“I think that's part of my role, part of my duty, to put in my games what I experience through movies, to explore this philosophy that movies gave me. I want to provide something similar to people through the games I create.”
“I think that creating things is a means to say goodbye to your past self, so I think what you're saying is exactly right.”
“Some of those offers are ridiculously high prices, but it's not that I want money. I want to make what I want to make. That's why I created this studio. So as long as I'm alive, I don't think I will ever accept those offers.”
“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.”
“But humans are imaginative, and since I'm also a creator, I don't want to hurt other creators' feelings, even if their work isn't entirely good.”