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" Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners. "
Hideo Kojima
Army
Present
Hollywood
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" Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things. "
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" Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it. "
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Film
Look
Them
" My games are rather stressful games, where you have to play for a long time. "
Hideo Kojima
Games
Long
Long Time
" When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head. "
Hideo Kojima
Small
Thinking
Always
" My goal is to make a player think, 'I want to reenter this world of lies tomorrow.' "
Hideo Kojima
Lies
Goal
Think
" One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter. "
Hideo Kojima
Becoming
Painter
First
" If it weren't for Miyamoto-san, I wouldn't be where I am. "
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Were
Where
Am
" I always say, 'This will be my last 'Metal Gear.' "
Hideo Kojima
Gear
Will
Say
" Many people are taking 2D games and making them into 3D games by recreating the characters in polygons. But the gameplay's still the same, and that's not what they should be doing. "
Hideo Kojima
Still
People
Many
" What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters. "
Hideo Kojima
Characters
Unique
Trying
" My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success. "
Hideo Kojima
Success
Gear
Metal
" There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening. "
Hideo Kojima
Fight
Games
You
" If 'Castlevania' wasn't created next to me, and Capcom didn't release 'Ghouls n' Goblins,' then maybe there wouldn't be any 'Metal Gear,' and I would have created a horror action game, because I really like that genre. "
Hideo Kojima
Because
Action
Game
" I don't like necessarily that people think 'Metal Gear' defines me. I love 'Metal Gear,' don't get me wrong. But as a creator, I really want to work on other projects, including new games. "
Hideo Kojima
Work
People
Love
" When I was a child, there really weren't very many video games, but I do have memories of 'Pong.' Maybe it was 'Pong.' It was a home system in Japan, so maybe it wasn't the real 'Pong.' It was just sort of a Japanese game that was similar to 'Pong.' "
Hideo Kojima
Game
Video Games
Memories
" I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil. "
Hideo Kojima
Evil
Good
Want
" I always observe the people who pass by when I ride an escalator. I'll never see most of them again, so I imagine a lot of things about their lives... about the day ahead of them. "
Hideo Kojima
Day
Always
See
" At Disneyland, you never go 'backstage' - even when you're in the bathroom. "
Hideo Kojima
Bathroom
You
Disneyland
" Japanese players do not like being thrown into an arena in which they are given very little instruction. You can head in any direction, 360 degrees. They say, 'What am I supposed to do? Give me hints. Provide me service instead of just throwing me into this arena.' "
Hideo Kojima
You
Direction
Service
" Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle. "
Hideo Kojima
Handle
Character
Difficult
" As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released. "
Hideo Kojima
Looking Back
Game
Back
" I believe that this cooperation between Nokia and Konami will form the perfect match to share the vast potential of mobile entertainment content with users all around the world. "
Hideo Kojima
Will
Perfect
Potential
" To be honest, my friends weren't really as into making films as I was. But I convinced them all to make some zombie films with me. "
Hideo Kojima
Friends
Honest
Zombie
" I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being. "
Hideo Kojima
Inside
Always
Had
" It's part of my ritual to watch a new film every day, no matter what. It's important to me. "
Hideo Kojima
Every Day
Important
Me
" The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer. "
Hideo Kojima
Control
Over
Painter
" 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. "
Hideo Kojima
Perspective
Technology
Art
" My parents were born in the 1930s, and they experienced the air raids on Tokyo. "
Hideo Kojima
Parents
Air
1930s
" I want to continue making things. "
Hideo Kojima
Things
Continue
Making
" People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R. "
Hideo Kojima
People
Rivalry
War