“When it comes to issues like gun violence, we got to make sure that we’re not glorifying it because the stories you tell shape our children’s outlook and their lives,” he cautioned a crowd at DreamWorks Animation in Glendale, California.

Vice President Joe Biden had brought together Hollywood industry representatives earlier this year for a gun task force following the aftermath of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Connecticut.

President Obama expressed his interest in continuing the dialogue to reduce the amount of violence in movies and video games.