Dan Houser on Making Movies, Games as Art  April 6, 2011 -    On
games being art, Houser wasn't quite ready to make that leap,
though he says that Rockstar is on their way towards creating a
product that falls into that category.. someday:  "We obviously
feel that games are an amazing creative medium that have unique
rewards and unique challenges," he explained. "Games today are
moving towards creative maturity, as both people’s skill at
designing them improves and the underlying technology to build
them makes more and more possible. Production values have
improved massively in games over the last five years."  Finally,
Houser says that movies are not part of the company's vision
right now but they could be in the future:  "If we were to
attempt to make a movie, we would like to make it ourselves, or
at least work in collaboration with the best talent, so at least
if it is bad, we can know we failed on our own terms," he said.
"But doing that takes time, and making games properly takes a
lot of time. So, we m