Quotes About Creativity

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

'Chronicle' could have been a video-game movie. The original 'RoboCop' and the remake could have come from video games.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

Video games are ubiquitous now.

Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.

I would love to make video games.

As writers, we have to make our own work - as bloggers, writing for video games, whatever we can do. Everyone breaks into the business in a different way.

It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

My nerdy pursuits are more like video games, Dungeons and Dragons, stuff like that.

Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life.

A lot of the greatest artists, their work is always about life and the world. I think there needs to be that for video games.

Video games have always been a part of my life.

We founded thatgamecompany to push the boundary of video games as an interactive medium.

When I'm working on something and need to take a little break, I'll go down and play some video games.

A lot of people say video games can be stifling. Older people say, 'We had to go outside, and we had to make up stories!' For me, video games broadened my horizons. Playing 'Golden Axe,' I was those characters. I imagined myself being in that world, so honestly, it was a really good thing.

I love the beautiful distractions of the world - television and movies, video games, the Internet in general. But I try really hard to avoid them, because they don't help me become a better writer. They subtract hours from my day. And a writer's main currency is time. Time to daydream, time to walk and think, time to sit and do the work.

Modern video games like 'Mass Effect' and 'Uncharted' cost tens of millions of dollars and require the labor of hundreds of people, who can each work 80- or even 100-hour weeks.

My dream is to make everyone love video games.

I loved playing video games when I was younger, loved playing with Legos - the tech nerd, that was me for sure.

Music and video games go hand in hand.

Without video games, I don't think I'd be where I am today with anything else in life.

I've been playing video games since I was 10 years old, and I think it's important to play games if you want to design them yourself.