Blockbuster King turned game developer Steven Spielberg talked about his hatred of cutscenes that interrupt gameplay in an interview with Yahoo! Games.

The thing that doesn’t work for me in these games are the little movies where they attempt to tell a story in between the playable levels. That’s where there hasn’t been a synergy between storytelling and gaming. They go to a lot of trouble to do these [motion-capture] movies that explain the characters. And then the second the game is returned to you and it’s under your control, you forget everything the interstitials are trying to impact you with, and you just go back to shooting things. And that has not found its way into a universal narrative.

Spielberg complained specifically about games like Battlefield: Bad Company where you can’t skip the cutscenes. His perspective comes from almost four decades of movie storytelling, and shows the importance of delivering a cohesive narrative through gameplay rather than cinematics.

“I think filmmakers are learning things from video games,” said Spielberg. “Movies are starting to look more and more like videogames, like the digital introductory teasers videogames give you before they turn control over to the player.” He added that Wanted and The Bourne Ultimatum show “a lot of video game saavy.”

Spielberg also talked about his own game projects in the interview. His puzzle game Boom Blox surprised a lot of gamers with its lack of narrative when it came out for the Wii in May. The director’s next project, LMNO, is “more of a movie-type story game” and revolves around an ex-secret agent.