Smart and intellectual? Intellectual, maybe, but smart? No. The fact is the man is worth about the same as an old boot. He's a total douchebag with very little love in what he does. Don't believe me? Watch the DOA movie... knowing that he himself has never seen it. No one that likes what they do would let the story they created get demolished in the way that movie did.
Now Hideo Kojima... That's someone worth his weight in GOLD.