Masahiro Sakurai Quotes

I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.

I would love to make video games.

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.

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

I have a couple of games I've wanted to make in the 'Tobuscus Adventures' universe.

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

Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health.

Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.

I just wanted to make video games.

The very first game I worked on was for DreamWorks Interactive's 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park.'

We believe that creating a 'Mario' game is a special endeavor.

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

What you do in film and television is really different than what you do in video games.

'Dark Souls' is my life's work; everything I came up with for 'Dark Souls III' is based on my personal preferences.

It's true that I'm sad about not being involved in the development of 'Dark Souls II,' because I've worked on 'Demon's Souls' and 'Dark Souls'' development for the past five years.

I take a lot of pride in being healthy.

I've had the tremendous fortune to work on games like 'Life is Strange' and 'Horizon Zero Dawn', where there was a lot of collaboration between me and the developers.

I've been playing video games since I was 10 years old, and I think it's important to play games if you want to design them yourself.

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

Don't just buy a new video game. Make one.

You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.