Quotes About Engagement

We're an industry obsessed with the storytelling side of things, the content. And then we got obsessed with the canvas. Is it going to be on television? Is it print? And now the canvas is mobile. But what we really need to think about is the context. The context is where and when the person is consuming it - location, time of day.

I always approach storytelling with the idea that the audience will get it. They understand almost better than we do, because they get to watch it from an entirely different perspective with new eyes.

For me, as an audience member, I'm always most engaged by serialized storytelling, so as an actor, the thing that I take away from it is how much fun it is to perform a serialized story.

I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am.

I feel, in storytelling, people are so afraid that you won't get it unless you pound them over the head.

Movies are a hobby for me. I think storytelling has reached a new level where younger audiences are looking at something more real and contextual.

If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.

I actually find it harder to act in the scenes where there's not much happening, say having a milkshake in the diner. That is far harder to do than straight scenes where there's a drama going on and you have something to do.

The Sixties - I had to have my foot in everything then. I'm doing the same thing now but through an intermediary. You know. The food company. Maybe that's the way to go about it. You go right straight into the inferno, and when you get older, you pull back.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes.

The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

When I was working on the first 'Dark Souls' - as far back as 'Demon's Souls,' actually - I didn't expect the player community to come up with speedrun contests or any of the strange new ways to play the games.

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show.

People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at it for a good long time. But that's not me.

QTE is a very strange thing... it really depends on what you expect from your game experience.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

When you're improvising, you connect with people in a way you don't in normal life, strangely.

I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded.

A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.

Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.

My dream was always to have an experience where an audience member would turn to another audience member, a stranger, and be like, 'What did we just go through?' And, like, kind of begin to talk.