Todd Howard Quotes

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

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

Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.

When we started EA in 1982, our goal was to make games as big a media as visual entertainment or movies. That was how big we dreamed at the time.

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

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

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.

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.

I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.

It seems to me so much technology could be applied to entertainment. Augmented reality, and even just the iPad - touch-screen technology, it was, you know, it still is extremely underused by entertainment.

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.

I'm in the business to make games - I love entertaining people.

One of the things I'm excited about is the observation that gamers are creators and creators are gamers too. We used to think of creators as workstation customers and think of gamers as consumers.

I've never made a game for a high-definition platform. That's definitely something I'm interested in.

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

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.

I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up.

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

Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.

Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.