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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.

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

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

I actually prefer film to TV, but I don't know why. I think there's just a different energy.

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

I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

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.

The kinds of games I'm most interested in are narrative games.