Dave Morris Quotes

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.

I liked playing video games because I felt like I was inside of the story in a way that I didn't feel when I was just watching something. Any chance I could get to step into the shoes of another person, I would take. I couldn't get enough of stories.

I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind.

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

I want to see movies where I can relate to the guy.

I think people are getting into these 'Empire' songs because of the emotional investment they have in the characters. You kind of feel like you know the songs already because you just watched them play out in front of you with these characters.

Some people are shocked when a game evokes real-world issues. But this platform is about becoming the characters, not just seeing them from the outside, like in a film.

Getting the player emotionally involved is the holy grail. We try to make players forget they're playing a game. We want them to live the experience and suspend disbelief.

The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.

In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us deep into these spaces - but the same way you know a Hollywood movie won't end after thirty minutes, you carry in yourself the implicit contract that the novel won't throw you out of itself 'til the very end. That bulk of pages is a form of consolation, of security.

We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

One of the reasons wrestling works is because it allows people to suspend their disbelief. They may know it's not real, but if it's done well enough, they get sucked into it emotionally. And that's why they watch.

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.