The Making of Prince of Persia Quotes

“I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float away into the stratosphere and everybody would stand there looking up at me and not one would haul me back down to earth. No ropes.”
― Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia

“A story doesn’t move forward until a character wants something. So – a game doesn’t move forward until the player wants something.”
― Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia

“For over a year now, the shadow man has been this awesome idea that everyone gets all excited about when they hear it. Now, it’s just… what it is. The unlimited potential has been replaced by the concrete reality of what I programmed today.”
― Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia

“In five years you’ll be 30. That’s the time of life when you stop asking a lot of questions and start to accept certain things and not try to change them.”
― Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia

“Maybe the best stuff is produced out of blackest despair. Or”
― Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia

“I’m not crazy about the prospect of sitting down to write another video game and getting up a year later.”
― Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia

“K. on”
― Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia

“Me, I have other plans… although what they are, I have no idea.”
― Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia

“Despair has been banished.”
― Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia

“June 30, 1992 Lunch with Doug. He wants to do POP: The Movie. He thinks he can raise $4 million from the licensees (Konami, etc.), then get the rest the usual way. $20”
― Jordan Mechner, The Making of Prince of Persia