Rich Sommer Quotes

What you do in film and television is really different than what you do in video games. There have been pockets of success, like at Time Warner. And Disney, with Club Penguin and Facebook games, has done a real good job of recognizing the business is not just about packaged goods.

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.

I'm interested in exploring the places where all media meet. As TV, Internet, art, games and movies all start moving towards the same point, I want to be part of inventing that space. I'd like to explore media that are traditionally seen as part of the mainstream but not necessarily utilize mainstream formulas.

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

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 really just wanted to work on adventure games, so Pinkerton Road is our own little indie studio that's focused on that.

I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

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.

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

Games are a media that relies on technology to be innovative and forward thinking and interesting. Personally, I love being at that forefront when something new comes out.

I'm not a frustrated movie director: I'm not making games because I can't make movies.

Any established media, such as literature, music, or film, offers a wide variety of experiences touching emotions from the very primal to the deeply complex. No matter who the audience are or what kind of mood they are in, there will always be something right for them. Video games, as a fast-growing new medium, is on its way to catching up.

I hope that there will be more and more games that will have something to say and become a little bit more meaningful.

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.

I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.

Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

Computer games don’t affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive music.

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

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

I see games... as the ultimate combination of art and technology.

I just wanted to make video games.

I believe that From Software has to create new things. There will be new types of games coming from us, and 'Dark Souls 3' is an important marker in the evolution of From Software.

I'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.