Lex Fridman

How many words are we talking about?

I saw some thousands of pages.

What was the writing process like on that to generate one page at a time?

Do you remember a few maybe lines that brought Nico to life?

Yeah, he escaped.

He's a veteran.

He escaped the trauma of war to come to America to pursue the American dream, I suppose, which became for him this thing that drags him back into violence.

I think he's probably the greatest character for me created in the Grand Theft Auto series.

Of all the characters you've written in Grand Theft Auto, would Nico be the best character you created?

And of course, Michael's from Grand Theft Auto V, and he's one of three protagonists with also Franklin and Trevor.

And you said that of the things you're proud of creating and you think was a great accomplishment, it was Red Dead Redemption 2, the ending of Red Dead Redemption 1.

all of Grand Theft Auto 4 and the middle part of Grand Theft Auto 5 when the three characters come together.

Can you speak to the Grand Theft Auto 5?

Is there some degree, I don't know if you're a Dostoevsky guy, but is there some aspect of...

the three protagonists, sort of, you know, brothers Karamazov, Alosha, Dmitri, and Ivan, sort of using the protagonists to explore the spectrum of human nature and just the tension between them that allows you, the three of them become a character in themselves.

One of the most upvoted questions on Reddit about GTA V is,

From a fan, GTA V is my favorite game ever made.

I spent over 1,000 hours in the world of GTA V and GTA Online.

GTA IV is a hard second or third.

It never ceases to impress me.