Sam Lake famous quotes

Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?
-- Sam Lake

#Art #Games #Acting

Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums -- movies, television series and books -- for sources of inspiration.
-- Sam Lake

#Book #Inspiration #Games

I think that in general -- well, at least it's true for me -- you tend to put something of yourself into the story as a whole. Not necessarily in any character, you understand. But you've got your own way of looking at the world, and that naturally will affect how you craft a story.
-- Sam Lake

#Character #Thinking #Crafts

The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script -- different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same.
-- Sam Lake

#Writing #Games #Different

It's also very important to make sure that the main character and the player are completely in synch.
-- Sam Lake

#Character #Player #Important

There needs to be just a little bit of crazy when dreaming up a new concept.
-- Sam Lake

#Dream #Crazy #Needs

I think that in general - well, at least it's true for me - you tend to put something of yourself into the story as a whole. Not necessarily in any character, you understand. But you've got your own way of looking at the world, and that naturally will affect how you craft a story.
-- Sam Lake

#Character #Thinking #Stories

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.

The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.