Raney Aronson-Rath Quotes

If we can find our storytelling in more complimentary ways with the technology, I think it's just going to get better and better.

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

What's really astounding to me is a lot of the guys at Oculus VR and other companies who were creating VR tell me that 'Ready Player One' is one of their primary inspirations in getting into virtual reality.

I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.

Signature film-making seems rather dull to me; it's about finding something you can do something with and running with the ball.

I think there is a lot of technology that is finding its way into our storytelling - it's pretty unavoidable.

I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?

I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

'Humans of New York' wasn't the result of a fully finished idea that I thought of and then executed; it was an evolution. There were hundreds of tiny evolutions that came from me loving photography.

I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

There are all kinds of things evolving in filmmaking I'm not sure I'm comfortable with. A friend of mine just showed me an immersive 360 movie where you move from environment to environment and can look in any direction you want while you're experiencing it. Which is cool - but it kills directing, as far as I'm concerned.

Augmented reality, and even just the iPad-touch-screen technology, it was, you know, it still is extremely underused by entertainment.

I really have thought about immersive storytelling my whole career, so when I first heard about VR, I was like, 'Oh, this sounds like it's for me.'

No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor.

Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

I'm surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It's lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.