Gen media is following the same trend as NeRF / 3DGS: a lot of focus on pretty renderings, when so much of the potential for these methods is the seamless combination of apprearance/geometry/semantics for functional applications.

I don't think the quote is directly from him. It's from a journalist interviewing him from the New Yorker (Larissa MacFarquhar, 2018) Good summary of some of his views though.