David Cage Quotes

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 think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.

Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

Interactive storytelling emphasizes a personal connection with the characters. It is a powerful tool that can draw you so deeply into the world of a story that you lose sight of it as a story. You think you are there - at least, if it is done right.

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

I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.

You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

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

I really got used to playing Maura.

It's just weird because videos games let you be something that you're not; so does acting, but it puts you in, like, a real-situation-type thing or something totally different.

That's the difference between even the best video game and what's going on in books. Video games can inspire a reaction, but not the emotions.

My goal with 'Beyond' is really to create a strong sense of empathy between the player and Jodie Holmes.

In a movie, you're just passive; you're just watching a story that is told to you. But in games, I saw that you could be the main protagonist: you could be in the shoes of the hero and make the decisions.

The nice thing about a video game is that you can explore the dimensions of a character so much more deeply than you can in a television show or even in a movie.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!

Anytime anyone gets passionate over a character you're playing, I think you've done your job well.

I think it's so important when you're playing a character that you can't judge the person you're playing at all. It's a judgment-free zone. You have to just go for it.

I'm quite simple, really. I like to play and inhabit my character. I really like to inhabit the situation. It's the situation that intrigues me.

I think every actor injects some of his own personality into his parts. There's a great deal of myself in McCoy, a great deal of Bill in Kirk, and a great deal of Leonard in Spock!

When I think of all the Hamlets I've seen, there's been a load of different styles, some marvellous. You like the Hamlet you saw when you were the right age to think you could be Hamlet.

I like living with a character for a really long time and what can open up with that.

There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.

What I love about acting is experiencing the absolute moments of - you know - of getting lost in the world you've created for yourself.