Matthew Mercer Quotes

I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of 'Dungeons & Dragons.'

I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.

I think that one thing I have learned as a freshman is that it is really important to collaborate.

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.

I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it.

At the beginning, everything's possible and everybody gets equal time, all the characters, all the ideas. You don't know who's going to be the main characters; they're all fighting it out. It's like kind of the best time in a way.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Every time I choose to do a movie, I make the decision because of what I think I can learn from it.

I was an actor for a little bit. That's when I started to understand fiction - and that one of the great things about fiction is that you're dependent on the characters as much as they're dependent on you.

And that doesn't cost any money, to have decent relationships and viable situations. What costs money is car chases and shoot-outs, so I always thought that the thing to work on was the characters.

I love reading and learning. With acting, I get to put all that into my work and still get to do my homework and imagine I can do all these different jobs.

I have made so many friends at Google it's not funny.

I enjoy playing different kind of people.

Give me a story which I connect with and then I am going to do it.

I'm kind of down for anything, as long as it's an amazing script that speaks to me, so I'm just constantly reading and constantly looking.

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

I enjoy stories that can spark a conversation.

Part of the fun of writing is having messages. Without them, it's all gunfights and car chases, and none of it means anything.

I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.