Edwin Catmull Quotes

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.

Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are the newest new thing since the arrival of the movies just over a century ago.

You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment they offer players the opportunity to explore, be creative, learn through interaction and express themselves to others. It is vitally important that we protect and nurture this new art form so that it can reach its full potential. Like most new forms of artistic expression that have come before (music, novels, movies), the primary critics of video games are the people that do not play them.

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.

Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling.

Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other storytelling mediums, and that's when I became more, shall we say, evangelistic in my position. Prior to that, I don't know how enthusiastically I would have admitted that I game.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.

I would love to make video games.

When we started EA in 1982, our goal was to make games as big a media as visual entertainment or movies. That was how big we dreamed at the time.

I really just wanted to work on adventure games, so Pinkerton Road is our own little indie studio that's focused on that.

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

I see games... as the ultimate combination of art and technology.

We founded thatgamecompany to push the boundary of video games as an interactive medium.

An entire generation of talented people - engineers, artists, scriptwriters, musicians, programmers - have been busy creating a whole new art form for us. The name of this new game is interactivity.

I have liked games for a very long time but when I saw 'Gradius' at the arcade as a junior high student, I became certain that in the future all forms of entertainment will be taken over by video games.