Edgar Wright Quotes

I mean, of course there's art in video games - duh.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Technology adds nothing to art.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Photography is not a fine art at all.

Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are the newest new thing since the arrival of the movies just over a century ago.

When I started, I wanted probably to make games that were inspired by films that I liked.

You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.