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" Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse. "

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" I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?' "

" I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons. "

" Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point. "

" I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan. "

" I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge. "

" My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out. "

" Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games. "

" If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be. "

" The more people who game, the better for everyone. "

" The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy. "

" In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. "

" When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running. "

" We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do? "

" I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time. "

" In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life. "

" Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in. "

" From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are. "

" I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math! "

" People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable. "

" I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games. "

" The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience. "

" Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game. "

" Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that. "

" I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that. "

" We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does. "

" My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say. "

" I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons! "

" Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can. "

" The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me. "

" I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me. "