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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.

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.

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.

It took a generation of filmmakers who loved and were raised on comic books to make movies that you actually cared about and felt something for. I think that's absolutely the same with what's going on with videogame movies.

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

I think it would be impossible to make a movie about video games if there wasn't some violence that we know from video games.

Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.

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

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.

That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.