Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling.
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.
Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.
Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.
Film is very condensed.
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.
Sometimes it's the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.
If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
I think that what is truly unfortunate is when an entire party makes a decision that they're going to block every single thing that a president wants to accomplish. It's very - it's very hard to get anything done in those circumstances.
I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.
As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.
Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III is what he based the character on.
If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.
Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.
