It was all a little surreal.
IAN SPECTOR I met him, and he's a really nice guy.
IAN SPECTOR After a month or so, the novelty began to wear off. So I, like, put up a poll to see who the next on...
IAN SPECTOR It was very informal. He asked me about my plans, and he hinted at some promotion of merchandise.
IAN SPECTOR It exploded. Since last summer, we've had 50 million hits. We generally get between 500,000 and 800,...
IAN SPECTOR I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don...
WARREN SPECTOR Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years...
WARREN SPECTOR I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
WARREN SPECTOR People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is goi...
WARREN SPECTOR I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit ...
WARREN SPECTOR My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s...
WARREN SPECTOR I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.
WARREN SPECTOR The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pal...
WARREN SPECTOR Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rule...
WARREN SPECTOR As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be ou...
WARREN SPECTOR When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.
WARREN SPECTOR The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting the...
WARREN SPECTOR If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals ...
WARREN SPECTOR I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics.
WARREN SPECTOR Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have ...
WARREN SPECTOR I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
WARREN SPECTOR Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt o...
WARREN SPECTOR I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or...
WARREN SPECTOR Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and...
WARREN SPECTOR I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.
WARREN SPECTOR In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
WARREN SPECTOR We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That'...
WARREN SPECTOR Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.
WARREN SPECTOR I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.
PHIL SPECTOR For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.
WARREN SPECTOR Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too.
WARREN SPECTOR It is a regrettable fact of life, but it is a fact of life that everything is done in the Congress a...
ARLEN SPECTOR But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job a...
ARLEN SPECTOR Would you say that your views are the same as those expressed by John Kennedy when he was a candidat...
ARLEN SPECTOR I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I ...
ARLEN SPECTOR Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to ge...
ARLEN SPECTOR Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'...
WARREN SPECTOR I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another compa...
WARREN SPECTOR The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spi...
WARREN SPECTOR The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, ...
WARREN SPECTOR My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we u...
WARREN SPECTOR Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people ...
WARREN SPECTOR I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mast...
WARREN SPECTOR I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the...
PHIL SPECTOR The gun went off accidentally.
PHIL SPECTOR On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a characte...
WARREN SPECTOR The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but e...
WARREN SPECTOR Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Anima...
WARREN SPECTOR I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.
WARREN SPECTOR I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.
RONNIE SPECTOR Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was dist...
WARREN SPECTOR Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower ...
WARREN SPECTOR I didn't mean to shoot her.
PHIL SPECTOR little symphonies for the kids.
PHIL SPECTOR I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be...
WARREN SPECTOR I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.
RONNIE SPECTOR Whoever crosses the line is the overall winner. Whether its kayak or canoe, that's the overall winne...
PATTY SPECTOR The last few days have been very hectic, but things are coming together. The entries are coming in s...
PATTY SPECTOR It's a very scenic route. It's very pretty.
PATTY SPECTOR It's fun, it's exciting, people come from all over the country. It's just a real fun thing to be a p...
PATTY SPECTOR Things for this year seem to be, knock on wood, running smoothly. It's the weather I wish I can cont...
PATTY SPECTOR I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I n...
WARREN SPECTOR But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way th...
RONNIE SPECTOR The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up wi...
WARREN SPECTOR We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
WARREN SPECTOR Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they'...
WARREN SPECTOR Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career i...
RONNIE SPECTOR From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.
RONNIE SPECTOR If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictl...
WARREN SPECTOR I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around ...
WARREN SPECTOR If I were sitting in North Korea, I wouldn't be too worried. We know the United States is tied down ...
LEONARD SPECTOR It's a very difficult situation where you don't know which side is going to blink first.
LEONARD SPECTOR In other words, I want closer relations too, but I am uncomfortable with this particular change,
LEONARD SPECTOR There will be opposition and it's difficult to predict which side will prevail, particularly because...
LEONARD SPECTOR Different kinds of bikers would prefer different routes. Certainly, bikers that are climbers would w...
PATTY SPECTOR A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember s...
IAN FRAZIER Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
IAN FLEMING There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
IAN WILLIAMS Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
IAN MCSHANE Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
IAN DUNBAR Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
JANIS IAN I'm still swimming.
IAN THORPE For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have do...
IAN THORPE I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on sw...
IAN THORPE Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an ...
IAN SOMERHALDER I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
IAN SOMERHALDER You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an act...
IAN SOMERHALDER The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide sprea...
IAN SOMERHALDER I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be...
IAN SOMERHALDER Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their commun...
IAN SOMERHALDER They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or...
IAN SOMERHALDER Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat ...
IAN SOMERHALDER I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolut...
IAN SOMERHALDER Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
IAN SOMERHALDER I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major pro...
IAN SOMERHALDER I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to sho...
IAN SOMERHALDER A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
IAN SOMERHALDER You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
IAN SOMERHALDER There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
IAN SOMERHALDER I always try to be reasonable and effective.
IAN SMITH Every human being makes mistakes.
IAN SMITH Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't wan...
IAN SMITH Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principle...
IAN SMITH Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
IAN SCHRAGER My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast,...
IAN SCHRAGER I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
IAN SCHRAGER The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents'...
IAN SCHRAGER I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed,...
IAN SCHRAGER Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
IAN SCHRAGER I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
IAN SCHRAGER Good design is good business.
IAN SCHRAGER People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's ...
IAN RUSH I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
IAN RUSH I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back...
IAN RUSH I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to...
IAN RUSH I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I...
IAN RUSH The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
IAN RUSH There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football clu...
IAN RUSH This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it&...
IAN RUSH I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
IAN RUSH You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.
IAN RUSH It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
IAN RUSH I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
IAN RUSH Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. ...
IAN RUSH Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
IAN RUSH I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia...
IAN RUSH I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
IAN RUSH In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and ot...
IAN RUSH You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.
IAN RUSH I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ...
IAN RANKIN A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up ...
IAN RANKIN Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
IAN RANKIN No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it'...
IAN RANKIN My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or s...
IAN RANKIN You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're ...
IAN RANKIN I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and...
IAN RANKIN I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. I...
IAN RANKIN The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon yo...
IAN RANKIN I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think...
IAN RANKIN I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, i...
IAN RANKIN At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ide...
IAN RANKIN I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in...
IAN RANKIN I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me...
IAN MILLAR It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the...
IAN MILLAR I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critic...
IAN MILLAR I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I...
IAN MILLAR When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and ye...
IAN MILLAR The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe th...
IAN MILLAR Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and...
IAN MILLAR If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
IAN MILLAR I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent m...
IAN MCSHANE Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for...
IAN MCSHANE Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
IAN MCSHANE People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
IAN MCSHANE Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
IAN MCSHANE My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
IAN MCSHANE The bad boys get all the best lines.
IAN MCSHANE When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge y...
IAN MCSHANE Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
IAN MCSHANE I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
IAN MCSHANE Acting's boring.
IAN MCSHANE I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill g...
IAN MCSHANE I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
IAN MCSHANE My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for tw...
IAN MCSHANE Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
IAN MCSHANE If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footba...
IAN MCSHANE You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
IAN MCSHANE There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
IAN MCSHANE You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
IAN MCSHANE When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play...
IAN MCSHANE I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to ...
IAN MCSHANE What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
IAN MCSHANE My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football...
IAN MCSHANE It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
IAN MCLAGAN I only seem to date younger women.
IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park...
IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when ...
IAN MCLAGAN When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm...
IAN MCLAGAN Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; tha...
IAN MCLAGAN We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
IAN MCLAGAN I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and...
IAN MCLAGAN What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
IAN MCLAGAN You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know...
IAN MCLAGAN I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis...
IAN MCLAGAN Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth...
IAN MCKELLEN You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'...
IAN MCKELLEN What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you...
IAN MCKELLEN Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I...
IAN MCKELLEN I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separa...
IAN MCKELLEN I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of the...
IAN MCKELLEN If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Adm...
IAN MCKELLEN I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusi...
IAN MCKELLEN Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shou...
IAN MCKELLEN It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and re...
IAN MCKELLEN I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of puttin...
IAN MCKELLEN There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender ov...
IAN MCKELLEN You mustn't upstage the bride.
IAN MCKELLEN What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in oth...
IAN MCKELLEN So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for m...
IAN MCKELLEN I like sleeping a lot.
IAN MCKELLEN