David Sheff Quotes

We called 'Heavy Rain' an interactive drama, for whatever that's worth.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

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.

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

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

If you are willing to take the trip through 'Analogue,' you'll be rewarded with some of the best writing in gaming today and a look into the future of what kind of meaningful stories video games are capable of telling.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

It's like fiction - the fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind. You go through heavy emotional responses to these stories, and wrestling is a similar thing - but it's happening in real space.

'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.

I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.

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

Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.

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

I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.

My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

The experience you're going to take the audience on is as important as the story you're trying to tell. And that experience needs to excite me so much that I am desperate to share it.

What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.

We could make the most beautiful film in the world, but if it doesn't have a heart beating underneath it, then no one's going to be interested.