Hideo Kojima Quotes

That's the difference between even the best video game and what's going on in books. Video games can inspire a reaction, but not the emotions.

Like any other entertainment medium, we must create an emotional response in order to succeed. Laughter, fear, joy, affection, surprise, and - most of all - accomplishment. In the end, triggering these feelings from our players is the true judgment of our work. This is the bottom line measurement of success.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

As a gamer, I like to go up and look at people's faces and see how good of a job they did.

I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.

What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' was on TV, and they don't really make movies like that anymore, just simple and scary. The truly scary thing is, 'I'm going to threaten your life, I'm going to threaten the people you love. What are you going to do about it?'

I love films, I love the way they make me feel.

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.

That's my mission: to make you feel something.

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.

I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.

The heart of change is in the emotions…. We see, we feel, we change.

I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.

Movies aren't machines. They interact with our brains.

I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying.

I always want to go to the movies and watch something and be moved by something or feel things.

It's obvious some people don't have an emotional thing for the music.

I disagree that injecting emotion into a game comes at the expense of the playing experience.

When we approach games, we're always emotional-focused, so if a free-to-play business model works against the emotion, we won't use it. If it actually works well with the emotion, or if we can come up with a new way to do monetization that's different and that's unique for the game, I would go for that.

The strength of brand loyalty begins with how your product makes people feel.

If I don't see an emotional response to a dress, then I think something's wrong.

Most games end up with quite caricature scripts because they are just here to serve the game-play mechanics but not to trigger any emotional response.

I'm taken by a story and a character. I'll read a script, and if it touches me and moves me and makes waves, that's why I'll choose it.