Cory Barlog

A game director, in my mind, is somebody who makes everybody on the team miserable for the duration of the project.

The thing I really liked about the early 'God Of War' games was the idea that from the menu screen it felt like you went right into the game.

For me, human beings have a very difficult time changing. It's one of the hardest things to do.

You have to have this straddling balance of realizing that games are incredibly complex. You can have an idea of where you want to go with something, the structure of something, but the actual moment to moment figuring all this out-it unravels over the course of, in 'God of War''s case, about five years.

It is the adage of any creative thing; it looks terrible, it is an ugly baby, until the very last second.

I went to work with George Miller on game stuff, but to also learn every possible thing I could from somebody I admire so much.

I don't want to work on any games that don't have some kind of story component because that is the draw for me.

Initially I took the job because I thought it would be really easy. I was like, I'll take the paycheck because I want to do my own movie. That didn't work out. In the first two weeks I fell in love with Kratos from an animation perspective; I'd never been able to do anything like this.