Jim Coleman Quotes

When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.

It's pretty cool to see yourself on a video game.

That feeling of being rewarded for your curiosity is huge. It's why I play games, this idea of truly existing in a world.

I think it's fun to play for people who don't know what you do.

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

I just want my audiences to be entertained and feel like they're part of the show. I want to show them a good time and create an experience they're going to enjoy.

There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

A lot of people say video games can be stifling. Older people say, 'We had to go outside, and we had to make up stories!' For me, video games broadened my horizons. Playing 'Golden Axe,' I was those characters. I imagined myself being in that world, so honestly, it was a really good thing.

You have to be dope; you have to find an audience and reach that audience with your identity and your message.

I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

Film has become a very passive experience, but with theatre, there is a contract made with the audience, where they participate. That's why my parents' puppet theatre was such a special place - people used their imaginations. It's a muscle that needs using.

I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know - every audience has its own personality.

I love telling stories, I love entertaining, and I love my job.

The joy of making a genre film is that you have audiences in that place, and it's a perfect place to start because all it takes is finding ways to startle them out of that complacency and encourage a different kind of engagement.

I suppose the key for me is about opening up experiences and untold stories to audiences.

The fact that I'm even in a video game blows me away, but 'WWE 12' is even more special to me because they have a whole storyline around Sheamus in the game. It's really, really cool.

I say it often, that I feel like I'm just living out the Story Mode in 'Smackdown vs. RAW' that I always used to play.