Trip Hawkins Quotes

If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

'Syndicate' is technically the first game I worked on.

Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.

You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

It's hard to get material. I haven't made a movie before. I have two episodes of television that I think have come in really great, but it's really hard to get directing work.

We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

The main thing that excites me is that games are successful everywhere now. Now it's successful everywhere, and that's really important for the health of the industry.

When you come into this game and this industry, it's kind of like really being born again, because you don't know too much about it.

I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.

What Nintendo will do is simply try to do our best, believing that our strategy is right.

Each game we make, we like to introduce an emotion that is rarely experienced by gamers in the console game industry.

I always felt like the wrestling business was better off with two viable mainstream promotions.

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

When I got to Activision, it was like a carnival. They had a recycling container filled with cans and a sign over it that said 'Activision Takeover Defense Fund.' Activision was making games based on passion and gut instinct. We needed to develop games based on P&L statements and what was going to sell.

We tried to just convince big publishers like EA or other people to make games like 'Cloud'... It's just almost impossible.

There are shots that I had to walk away from because we had to get the movie in the theaters. There are some in "Independence Day" and "Godzilla," but lately I got smart. I would plan it so I had enough time [to get it right]. That just comes with experience.

Game creation keeps on expanding, just like the Universe. That is why I keep making games

The audience has realized how much money the studios make from games now. They're making more money from games than they are from feature films. I mean this is a massive industry. It's still in its infancy. So I really feel lucky to be a part of it.

My name is Reggie. I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games.

I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.