Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I prefer making stuff to talking about how I made the stuff. "

Related Quotes:

" If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly. "

" Virtual reality is the 'ultimate empathy machine.' These experiences are more than documentaries. They're opportunities to walk a mile in someone else's shoes. "

" When the protagonist breaks the fourth wall by looking at the camera in a movie, it's generally been used for comedic purposes, rather than feeling like they're looking into your soul. "

" When people ask whether virtual reality will be a real thing or just the next 3D, what I always say is, 'Take a headset, walk outside, and the next person you meet, put it on them and see what the reaction is.' "

" Virtual reality is already affecting people on an emotional level much more than any other media, and it has the potential to scale: all you need is an attachment for your cellphone, and you can have this experience. "

" For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form. "

" So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there. "

" We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we're trying to tell or the shot we're trying to capture. "

" Video games as a storytelling medium are, from a mathematical standpoint, a branching narrative. You start at one place, you can go in multiple different directions, and there's a multitude of different endings. "

" In virtual reality, it's more about capturing and creating worlds that people are inhabiting. You really are a creator in the way the audience lives within the world that you are building. "

" I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves. "

" It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people's perception of each other. And that's how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world. "

Change The World

" Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl. "

" With virtual reality, I'm not interested in the novelty factor. I'm interested in the foundations for a medium that could be more powerful than cinema, than theatre, than literature, than any other medium we've had before to connect one human being to another. "

" In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else. "

" It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic. "

" All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology. "

" I want to figure out what comes after cinema as the gold standard for storytelling. "

" Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own. "

" Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world. "

" I didn't want to be a storyteller when I grew up; I wanted to be stuntman. "

" As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love. "

" Virtual reality started for me in sort of an unusual place. It was the 1970s. I got into the field very young: I was seven years old. And the tool that I used to access virtual reality was the Evel Knievel stunt cycle. "

" Every digital video player - RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Vevo, Hulu, YouTube - all of them had different ways of getting you the video, but it was still always the same series of rectangles. The format never changed. "