Good games teach what works and bad games teach what doesn't.

Blue Shift' is a game that I'm very proud of.

The key is when we make mistakes, we want to be able to correct them and we also want to be able to learn from them so that we do not make the same mistake twice.

There's no trend lines that work in entertainment. You can break any trend line by offering value that we as consumers of content want.

Do something good, and people want that! Do something less good, and people want it a little less!

There are several cool cross-overs between 'Blue Shift,' 'Opposing Force' and 'Half-Life.' The plots are all designed to work nicely with themselves and the observant player will catch many cross-references.

From a narrative perspective, 'Blue Shift' for the PC and 'Blue Shift' for the Dreamcast are very similar.

If you're successful, 'Blue Shift' has what many have called the most satisfying 'Half-Life' ending yet.

Usually when we finish a game and we're at the end, we're sick of it. We want to put it in the box and be done with it. But with 'Borderlands,' it's actually become a productivity sink at Gearbox, because we're just having fun.

Sometimes we do derive some entertainment when we 'appreciate' something, and sometime we feel something when we're moved. So a lot of game makers want challenge themselves with 'can I move someone?' or 'can I get them to respect me as an artist?'

I mean, of course there's art in video games - duh.

When I'm in line at the grocery store, I might pick up one of those tabloids. I might not even buy it. I'm just gonna sit there and read the headlines and chuckle at how stupid that stuff is, even though I'm reading it anyway.

I've decided, because we have a short time here, that those of us that create joy and happiness, that's a really noble thing.

I have a lot of respect for those in medicine that are trying to extend our lives or help us when we're sick.

But it's only through joy and happiness that life has any value or purpose.

I'm just a boy with a dream from Queens. Just a queen from Queens.

I think that I did inherit a very expressive face from my mother and my grandmother.

Well, the first restaurant I worked in was Hooters.

I'm very - I'm not very sure of anything in my life, but there's always been something in me that has known that I'm going to get where I'm going, one way or the other.

I did have a thing for mazes. When I was a kid, I remember drawing little mazes constantly and puzzles. I loved that.

I always considered song parody kind of cheap.

Music in general, but really musical theater has always been a real coping mechanism for me.

Comedy is able to point out things in ways that more serious people cannot.

Comedy illuminates. And it unifies people, it's not as polarizing as shows with specific political agendas.

The worse things are on the world stage, the more fodder there will always be for comedians. But at the end of the day, I trust in my abilities to make comedy and create art, with or without Donald Trump.

I started out doing musical theater specifically - I thought I would eventually move to New York and audition for stuff, and maybe wind up on Broadway or something. Well, that didn't happen.

I moved to New York in 2003, I was a very young 22-year-old, so I just kind of started finding my way as a human and was working odd jobs here and there.

I mean, musical theater really informed so much of my life. It just so perfectly brings order to chaos, which is why we love theater.

I'm not really that political and I love the idea of a sitcom. But a lot of people want me to become the next Jon Stewart.

That's the downside of total creative control: You're isolated and after a while you can lose a little perspective. But I've taught myself not to listen to my own self-doubt.

My father was a textbook narcissist. If he didn't like the narrative he'd start gaslighting you. He threatened the democracy of our family.

As long as there are headlines I'll have material.

I am very proud to be a Jew.

I really wasn't raised with much religion. I mean we practice kind of the basic tradition, but for me it was always more of a cultural thing and that's a part of me and my ancestry that I always loved. I mean, I think that a lot of my humor is 'Jewish humor' at its root. And so culturally I love that part of myself.

I was always interested in being funny and amusing and creating art and comedy.

I was doing YouTube before YouTube was a thing. I was making videos on my camcorder for my friends. I would do parodies of Britney Spears videos and stuff like that.

Anyone who does social media, YouTube, Internet content will tell you it can be extremely isolating.

I used to take my little Disney figurines and turn them into stop-motion animation.

There's not one Yiddish word that is not perfectly funny.

It was really my grandmother who was the biggest influence because she'd talk back to the celebrities and politicians on TV. She was a combination of Joan Rivers, Elaine Stritch, Betty White, and Bea Arthur rolled into one.

My father was Donald Trump, and my mother was Hillary Clinton, and my grandmother was Nancy Pelosi. And I was - I wanna say, Mike Pence, 'cause he's the gayest one.

If I have a passion for anything, it's more the truth than politics, and I think that's what got me interested in comedy in the first place, because the best comedy is the truth. People recognize that.

I'm not a disciplined person.

I'm not a political pundit by any means.

I think I became a gay comedian out of necessity, because what else am I gonna do with that name? And it has worked out now, but it was a very difficult childhood. It sounds like the hokiest stage name ever.

What I love is that I'm hearing from people on the left and people on the right that I've given them something to laugh at.

My mom is probably my biggest fan.

I did a lot of children's theater in Miami Shores. My base musical theater training happened there.

I'm very much a one-man-band.

Going after people for their politics is not necessarily what I do.