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In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case.

— Duncan Jones

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

— Jet Li

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

— Josh Trank

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

— J Allard

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

— Andy Serkis

When I started, people would come to interview me, and just knowing that I worked in videogames - it was like people wanted to stone me, it was that bad. People thought of video games as kind of a bad thing in society. Now, people that come to interview me, they have grown up with video games, and they know what they are; they've experienced it.

— Yuji Horii

The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

— Vin Diesel

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.

— Bruce Feirstein

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Tom Bissell

It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.

— John Cleese