For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters. — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
The hardest part of 'Game of Thrones' is there is so much incredible talent bouncing off the walls that you'll actually miss… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
'Proof' is a really cool pilot that I was lucky enough to read by Rob Braggin for TNT that's about a surgeon… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
Because if you remember - and people forget this - the first two years of Game of Thrones everybody was going, "I… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
And one of the things that's interesting about how they're doing the show is that the audience almost knows more than the… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would be making… — Alex Graves Copy Share
'Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody. — Alex Graves Copy Share
And one of the things that's interesting about how they're doing the show is that the audience almost knows more than the characters do… — Alex Graves Copy Share
My experience on 'The West Wing' was, I think, now rare in that I was pretty young, and I walked into this environment where… — Alex Graves Copy Share
For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters. — Alex Graves Copy Share
Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my… — Alex Graves Copy Share
The hardest part of 'Game of Thrones' is there is so much incredible talent bouncing off the walls that you'll actually miss some of… — Alex Graves Copy Share
Obviously the highest pressure scene, I guess it might've been a tie - what was the bigger death, Tyrion with Shae, Tyrion wth Twyin,… — Alex Graves Copy Share
Because if you remember - and people forget this - the first two years of Game of Thrones everybody was going, "I don't know… — Alex Graves Copy Share
Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of… — Alex Graves Copy Share
For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your… — Alex Graves Copy Share
There weren't any deleted scenes, it was just a matter of tightening stuff. I didn't have any deleted scenes in what I did as… — Alex Graves Copy Share
You can certainly shorten things and tighten things, we tightened up Jon's walk to Mance Rayder's tent. That was something that got tightened up… — Alex Graves Copy Share
I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier… — Alex Graves Copy Share
'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such a large… — Alex Graves Copy Share
