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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" There's three things that you need for virtual reality to work. You need the hardware that's affordable and doesn't make people sick, you need an audience that is willing to pay for it, and you need the content. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "