Chris Milk

My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.

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.

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.

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

If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly.

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.

My real motivation came from my quest for music videos to have the equally soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does. Honestly, I'm not sure they ever can.

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 love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.

I've played in bands myself, and sat on the floor photographing some of the greatest bands in the world while they rehearse. What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you.

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.

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.