Will Nolan Quotes

I'm a big believer in practical and location photography.

One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.

It can be easy for an actor to go "Well I really have to do a lot" and then just saying "I don't need to do anything, I'm not bound to do anything".

Books are a time machine.

How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.

Democrats, you know, want to identify with and relate to what you're feeling, what you've been bummed out about, where your head is at.

[Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.

I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

I appreciate the fact that technology and games are a big part of life.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

Being successful is kind of dull.

All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.

I've always been a tech-head.

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.

My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.

When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.

I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.

I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.

My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.

I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards.

I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasnt being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.

I know a lot of games have been going to the facial capture. And movies like 'TinTin' are using it, as well.

I guess that's what Little League is all about -- trying.

I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.

And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy.

And that's what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

I never found a place where I wanted to live more than Alvin (Texas).