I didn't want to be a storyteller when I grew up; I wanted to be stuntman. Chris Milk More Quotes by Chris Milk More Quotes From Chris Milk Virtual reality started for me in sort of an unusual place. It was the 1970s. I got into the field very young: I was seven years old. And the tool that I used to access virtual reality was the Evel Knievel stunt cycle. Chris Milk oldplacemereality Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own. Chris Milk ownfeelempathypeople We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we're trying to tell or the shot we're trying to capture. Chris Milk camerastorycapturetrying 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. Chris Milk musicsoultimeart I want to figure out what comes after cinema as the gold standard for storytelling. Chris Milk storytellingcinemagoldwant If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly. Chris Milk goingneveryoupaint All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology. Chris Milk i-cantechnologydoneway I prefer making stuff to talking about how I made the stuff. Chris Milk makingabouthowtalking Every digital video player - RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Vevo, Hulu, YouTube - all of them had different ways of getting you the video, but it was still always the same series of rectangles. The format never changed. Chris Milk neveryoudigitalmedia 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. Chris Milk video-gamesplacestartyou So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there. Chris Milk feelplacejournalismtime 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. Chris Milk yourealitypeopleworld It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic. Chris Milk weirdthinkyoupeople
