Quotes from Warren Spector

I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!

I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.

The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.

I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.

For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.

I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.

I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!

I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.

Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!

I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too.

The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.

The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?

Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.

As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be out looking for a development deal, and Disney happened to think my team and I might be the right people to make a Mickey Mouse game.

I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.

I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.

Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.