A good movie makes the audience feel like they've journeyed with the characters. Rich Moore More Quotes by Rich Moore More Quotes From Rich Moore It feels like there's something for everyone in video games. It's not just a toy for a certain age group. It's steeped in the culture now. Rich Moore video-games group age culture I always thought that Mario was kind of the bad guy - because if you knew about the game, there was supposed to be a back story where Mario was teasing the ape, and the ape stole his girlfriend, and this was kind of karma for Mario, you know? Rich Moore game thought you karma I'm part of that original generation that came up playing video games, that pumped a lot of our allowance into video games. We financed the rise of video games. I started playing them in the Straw Hat Pizza Palace at the Carriage Square Mall in Oxnard, CA. Rich Moore hat video-games generation pizza This new generation of animators was trained in CG. They know all the fundamentals of any 2D animator, but a lot of them learned on these CG rigs. You give them a good rig, and they can make that thing sing. Rich Moore generation new good you I fell in love with this idea of an old school game character, like Donkey Kong, who looks like a very simple guy but is really wrestling with this very profound struggle: 'What's the meaning of life? What if I don't like this job I've been programmed to do?' Rich Moore simple love character life I love living in Burbank. It has major movie studios, huge media empires, but the city still feels like a mom-and-pop town. It's not pretentious at all. It doesn't feel like a big Hollywood town, and it has every right to be, but it's very friendly and easygoing. Rich Moore city feel media love I love that fans feel comfortable enough to send us their artwork. Rich Moore feel fans enough love For artists, we're always looking for approval. We're putting our artwork out there and saying, 'What do you think?' Rich Moore saying looking think you When I was young, I was on a real hot streak with 'Crazy Climber.' There was a good three-week span where I couldn't get that game out of my head. I could not get back to the arcade fast enough to try and climb up there and not get kicked by a potted plant this time. That one got under my skin. Rich Moore game good crazy time I spent a lot of money and time at pizza places. Golf and Stuff in Ventura, right off the 101, was my hangout. Skating Plus, right behind it, always had a good selection of games. That was the place to be when you were from Oxnard back in the '80s. Rich Moore good you money time I remember the N64 coming out. That was a beautiful day. Rich Moore day beautiful-day remember beautiful The best games came from great characters. Rich Moore characters best great games I loved 'The Secret of NIMH.' When that came out, it felt like, 'Wow, this is something really, really new.' It looked like a Disney film, but it felt very cutting edge to me. To a twelve-year-old kid, it seemed very inspiring. Rich Moore loved new something me You know how they say that old people with Alzheimer's, they kind of go back, and they revert to the most emotional part of their life, what they did when they were younger... I think I am going to be cursed with reliving 'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' in my mind. And playing 'Dragon's Layer' when I enter Alzheimer's. Rich Moore i-am you hope life To me, I love being able to see some of John C. Reilly's face in Ralph, and some of Sarah Silverman in Vanellope. That there are hints of them there. In the broad strokes, they are there. Rich Moore face see me love I loved the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and the Lion and you could kind of see the actors' faces in them. It wasn't an entirely new face sculpted around them. What made those characters so human and appealing to me was seeing those great actors underneath there. They weren't lost behind a bunch of appliances. Rich Moore face me you man 'The Critic' was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he's got a great, great voice for animation. Rich Moore loved great think voice I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is. Rich Moore seed think know family Between 'Futurama' and 'Simpsons,' I'm able to work with the voices of Michael Jackson, Dustin Hoffman, and the cast of 'Star Trek.' It's great, you know; it's great to work with such talented people. Rich Moore great you work people I think it would be impossible to make a movie about video games if there wasn't some violence that we know from video games. Rich Moore video-games think violence impossible
