"My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games."

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Source : "Gamers for good". "Future Tense" with Antony Funnell, www.abc.net.au. October 20, 2013.

Jane McGonigal

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“The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.”
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“I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and watched. It had been about twenty years. I wanted to write it out before I watched it again. And I felt if those things stayed with me long enough, those are the things that I wanted to highlight.”
“Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.”
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