David Cage Quotes

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

You don't want to try to recreate something you've already done.

I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.

I always like to get a role where I think, 'Ah, I know this is probably going to be played like this, but I'm going to do it like this.'

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.

Life is short. Don't do the same thing everyone else is doing - that's such a herd mentality. And don't do something that's two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.

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.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

Why do something that's already been done?

There is an inherent creative restlessness at Laika where we always want to challenge ourselves.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

The majority of advertising agency creatives are creative people, but we've disciplined ourselves to think within traditional formats. I want to change that.

When you're making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime... it's going to lack originality and creativity, so I try to get my inspiration from different genres.

No, I would never in a million years compare anything we've done to anything we've previously done. I don't believe in it - I think it's bad.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

Some in Europe take a plane, fly to Silicon Valley, visit and look and come back and say we need to do the same thing. Well you can copy others... but if you always copy others, you never get ahead.

People trying new ideas are a blessing for gamers and in the industry in general.

The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.

We try to keep audiences coming back in greater numbers by doing the unexpected and not simply following a pattern or a mold or a formula.

It is only by trying new things that we can hope to create products that are original. Don't just say those words; act like you believe them.

When I'm working on games I don't think necessarily about what the end benefit of the game is going to be. Typically I'm trying to think of: "What can I do that is going to find new ways to entertain and surprise people."

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.