Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojimais a Japanese video game designer, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is the director of Kojima Productions, which he originally founded in 2005, and a former vice president of Konami Digital Entertainment. He is often regarded as an "auteur" video game director...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionEngineer
Date of Birth24 August 1963
CityTokyo, Japan
CountryJapan
expectations want fans
As a creator, I always want to betray fans expectations.
passion views ideas
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.
army guy hollywood
Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.
nice world body
It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.
nice people long
People are satisfied with making minor upgrades and tweaking things here and there - as long as that's the landscape, it will keep on happening. I don't see a problem necessarily, but at the same time it is nice to see new things come.
europe games roles
Japanese gamers aren't really into action games right now. They're into role-playing or strategy games with a lot of stats, but action titles are still really popular across the US and Europe.
caves cameras lost
What's troubling is that because the camera is 3D, the northern part of the screen isn't necessarily north anymore. So the jungle transforms into the true meaning of a jungle. For someone with no sense of direction like myself, I get lost in the caves every time.
bathroom disneyland
At Disneyland, you never go backstage - even when youre in the bathroom.
showing
The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.
art artistic aspects dedicated games museums music perceived sort synthesis technology various
There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art.