I have an interest in making first-person games.

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

Both of them are close to how I'd envisioned them. In Ico's case the design and in SotC's the visual look were very close to what I'd imagined.

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

It's very difficult to lie to yourself about certain things. I'm not necessarily convinced about how information is gathered and I don't think the credence that's given to it is valid.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate.

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

Things always seem to end before they start

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.