Hideo Kojima Quotes

90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.

Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. And when you do - pass it on to the future.

It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no.

Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor.

We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

As a creator, I always want to betray fans expectations.

What I'm doing is creating a game. I'm not making a movie. To make the game more enjoyable and captivating, and to make the player feel like he's present in that setting, we need the cinematic element.

I respect Shigeru Miyamoto, so there will be a lot of mushrooms in 'Metal Gear Solid 3.' But you cannot eat turtles.

When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.

Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view conveys all of these aspects of identity.

The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film

My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power.

We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.

Game creation keeps on expanding, just like the Universe. That is why I keep making games

I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.

Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world at all costs.

We might compare each day's decisions with the work of steering a boat. Our efforts will result in nebulous confusion if we make a wrong move at any point, even if it's only a small tack to the side. We absolutely cannot afford carelessness, lest we risk becoming lost ourselves.

Gamers should be able to take the experience with them in their living rooms, on the go, when they travel - wherever they are and whenever they want to play. It should be the same software and the same experience.

Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist.

I can see how everything relates to everything else when I think that nothing is merely coincidental. If everything that happens is inevitable, then the world is connected and whole.

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

I want to reassure fans that I am 100% involved and will continue working on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; I'm determined to make it the greatest game I've directed to date. Don't miss it!

My problem is that whenever I shoot, I do it Bruce Willis "Die Hard" style - in a very cinematic fashion.