Kyle Hilliard over at the resurrected Game Informer got to interview Matt Johnson about video games and Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie. Sorry for the long block quote;

"I think just having that approach to it allowed me, especially at a young age, to become totally lost in the process of post-production and editing and re-editing and rewriting things and redoing it, and redoing it, and redoing it in the same way you would a video game and viewing filmmaking like you would view playing a game where it's like, yes – you die. But then you come back, and you get to play the level again, and you can die again, and then get a little bit farther, and a little bit farther. And that iterative process got drilled into me by playing these games where the difficulty was way beyond my ability to play them. That helped me to view filmmaking as that same exact thing, where if you go in and do it and it doesn't work? That doesn't mean you stop and put the controller down, or that you go, “Okay, well, that's as good as I can do. So I'm just going to deliver this.” It’s like playing Dark Souls. The fun of it is trying to do it again, and again, and again, and again until you really have it right...

...I think it's fascinating to hear you refer to editing as playing a video game, because I had a similar reaction myself to Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie. When my daughter and I walked out of it, we said, “I don't know how they made that. I don't know how they got all those pieces to line up.” It does seem like you basically had to solve a gigantic puzzle. And you managed to get all the pieces together like you would solving an environmental puzzle in a Zelda or something.

That's what makes it so fun. And I gotta’ say, it is also the thing that motivates my friends and I to make these things, because it doesn't feel like we are covered in mud trying to climb up a mountain, which is the way I think a lot of production often feels with us. It truly is a game where you…"

I never thought of editing like a game, but ain't that the truth. Really, all creative endeavors are like a game.