We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention to whether people liked it. We read through it and see it, but we don't take it into consideration. ... [The Internet] is not going to dictate the direction of where the game goes.

I could make Halo. It’s not that I couldn’t design that game. It’s just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

When I look back I can tell that after I started having a family, I certainly wanted to make games that could be played with all the family members.