"What's the easiest film to make?" he asked. "I claim the easiest film to make is to put a camera in a room with some people, and they talk. You get a video camera, and you can do it for $500.
Even though I'm sure the actors get paid well there, see the HBO TV show "In Treatment" - take a bunch of good actors, good scripts, throw 'em in the same room (normally) for each episode, you have yourself a TV show.
What's the hardest film to make? It's got explosions and spaceships and lasers flying all over the place."
B/c of the human element. You have to make all the explosions, lasers, spaceships, and special effects look like your characters and the environments on screen - try and make them look like it's all REAL.
The easiest way to make that type of film w/ explosions, lasers, spaceships, and other special effects - work is to make the whole entire thing CG or animated. B/c it's fantasy, it's not really trying to look real or anything - this is all created from scratch.
By contrast, "what's the easiest game to make? It's got explosions, and maybe elves or orcs, and whatever. What's the hardest game to make? Well, it's got some people in a room talking.
About games - that's easiest b/c just like a CG or animated film - it's all done from scratch.
About people in a room talking in games - that's b/c lip-syncing has to be good; the animation has to superb and go right along w/ the voice-acting; and the graphics have to look really-really good. Basically, you're trying to make something created from scratch look real - and that ain't gonna be easy. With this style here, games are trying to be more realistic - like a film shot w/ actors. That's outside of the box here for a game. It's going to be really interesting to see a game like Heavy Rain attempt to do this kind of style and try to look like your usual thriller movie - especially since there likely isn't going to be many action-game type of elements here, either.
