Hideo Kojima

My parents were born in the 1930s, and they experienced the air raids on Tokyo.

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

I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war.

I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn't been interested in and cultural things I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about.

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.