Michael Giacchino Quotes

I would love to make video games.

We believe that creating a 'Mario' game is a special endeavor.

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

I have a couple of games I've wanted to make in the 'Tobuscus Adventures' universe.

Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.

I just wanted to make video games.

I studied video game design. The one thing I knew for sure about myself is I didn't want to study acting.

'Dark Souls' is my life's work; everything I came up with for 'Dark Souls III' is based on my personal preferences.

It's true that I'm sad about not being involved in the development of 'Dark Souls II,' because I've worked on 'Demon's Souls' and 'Dark Souls'' development for the past five years.

I've had the tremendous fortune to work on games like 'Life is Strange' and 'Horizon Zero Dawn', where there was a lot of collaboration between me and the developers.

I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.

I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

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.

I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.

I was the lead designer on 'Portal,' and I really enjoyed making that type of game.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

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

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.

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

I had a friend who had done the cinematics for 'Splinter Cell: Conviction,' so he kind of indoctrinated me into the series. I did a bunch of temp stuff for him - I roughed stuff in the game for him, playing about nine characters - just so he had some character templates to work from.

I've never made a game for a high-definition platform. That's definitely something I'm interested in.

When I started, I wanted probably to make games that were inspired by films that I liked.