David Cage Quotes

I don't pretend that 'Heavy Rain' will be a revolution, and I don't know if people will love it or hate it. All I can say is that it is definitely going to be different.

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

We need games like 'A Closed World' for many reasons. When you hear another developer talk about how games need to grow up, they need to tackle adult themes, and how they need to embrace that ability to transport the player into a different world, this is that game that they want other developers to make.

Each game we make, we like to introduce an emotion that is rarely experienced by gamers in the console game industry.

I love games like 'Flower,' for example - I thought this was amazing. It's great, it's new, it's different, and it's invented something that didn't exist before.

If you played 'Heavy Rain,' there are very few cutscenes and very few moments where you don't have control.

For us, it's about having the game react to the player as much as possible. There's ways you can do that with technology, graphics, AI - we're doing some VR stuff right now - and so it's what we think is great about not just our games, but what's great about video games - how are they better than any other form of entertainment?

Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

The technology for radiant stories in 'Skyrim' is phenomenal. We tried and pared it back.

Why stick to just prose or just music or just newspaper or just video? Why not create new models for information that combine elements of them all?

On 'Heavy Rain,' the game started with something that happened to me when I lost my son, my six-year-old boy, in a mall. I was so scared. I was curious to see if I could create that impression, that fear, in a game, an interactive experience.

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

What I'm doing is creating a game. I'm not making a movie. To make the game more enjoyable and captivating, and to make the player feel like he's present in that setting, we need the cinematic element.

The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.

On the day a country decides not to invest a cent in innovation, discovery or exploration, that country decides to be a tributary to others.

It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.

When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.