Mitch Lasky Quotes

We've always operated under the belief that you could run a video game business as professionally as you could run a consumer packaged goods business, and you wouldn't diminish creativity.

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life.

We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.

The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.

If I had done a sequel to 'Day of the Tentacle,' there probably wouldn't have been a 'Full Throttle.' If I did a 'Full Throttle' sequel, there wouldn't have been a 'Grim Fandango.' It's important to make new stuff up.

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

I think the downloadable scene in general is really, really interesting for developers because it's low-risk. It doesn't require as much money as a triple-A title. And it's a great proving ground for new IPs, new concepts, new ideas - things that I think I, as a developer, find really attractive.

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

The video game industry is constantly evolving. The sheer creativity matched with cutting-edge technologies gives me the comfort that innovation is alive and well in America.

I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.

I have immense respect for Unity because they played a key role in establishing this indie revolution, empowering a huge number of people to get into game development.

One of the things I'm excited about is the observation that gamers are creators and creators are gamers too. We used to think of creators as workstation customers and think of gamers as consumers.

We are building a brain trust of leading app talent. These are very highly regarded developers, and SGN is blessed to have them join to help build a great company that brings innovation, creativity, and joy to our users.

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

When you make something that everyone likes, it's very easy to say, "Well, I'll just repeat that." Because that was easy. I have a formula. But creatively, it's not very interesting.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.