I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups. — Alan Taylor Action Copy Share Image
When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch. — Alan Taylor Cinema Copy Share Image
I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me. — Alan Taylor Adventure Copy Share Image
Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future. — Alan Taylor Fiction Copy Share Image
I think calling for more women in every aspect of this industry is a sensible thing. — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
Compared to TV, 'Palookaville' was restriction-free, except we had no money and no time. — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one. — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
The funny thing is more money doesn't necessarily get you what you think it's going to get you and the way where… — Alan Taylor Film Copy Share Image
There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
On 'Game of Thrones,' I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we'd see photos of what we'd shot online and think,… — Alan Taylor Croatia Copy Share Image
On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen. — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more… — Alan Taylor Cinema Copy Share Image
I've been sort of spoiled on the TV end because HBO feels like a small institution making independent movies. There's respect for… — Alan Taylor Director Copy Share Image
It's been a twisty-turny path for me. I was studying to be a history professor, and then I left that, went to… — Alan Taylor Film Copy Share Image
'Game of Thrones' was the first fantasy thing I've done, and like a lot of people who enjoy the show watching it,… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
Most people aren't lying awake at night worrying about a nuclear threat. But we are unnerved by a lot of how technology… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
“In 1786, Jefferson pitched a secular and public system of education for Virginia. He reasoned that “the tax which will be paid… — Alan Taylor Education Copy Share Image
Coming off 'Sopranos' and 'Mad Men,' I was starting to feel like I was being spoiled creatively. I wanted to move forward… — Alan Taylor Cinema Copy Share Image
In TV, when you come in to direct an episode, you are effectively learning an established language; you then have to try… — Alan Taylor Language Copy Share Image
“Writing to his son in 1799, John Adams blamed America’s political turmoil on “a systematical dissolution of the true Family Authority. There… — Alan Taylor Family Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of things evolving in filmmaking I'm not sure I'm comfortable with. A friend of mine just showed me… — Alan Taylor Cinema Copy Share Image
I come out of TV, where you never reshoot, because you don't have time. If you do reshoot, it's because someone really… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history. — Alan Taylor Education Copy Share Image
The weird thing is, 'Game of Thrones,' people go to Iceland for three weeks, and it'd be like a small guerilla operation.… — Alan Taylor Country Copy Share Image
I had been trying to make movies, but they were really hard to get made. TV wound up, by surprise, a much… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
“They were giving their childhood to this woman! They were starting at seven, and by the time they were sixteen they were… — Alan Taylor Childhood Copy Share Image
The Marvel experience was particularly wrenching because I was sort of given absolute freedom while we were shooting, and then in post,… — Alan Taylor Absolute freedom Copy Share Image
There's a very devoted fan base that really loved 'T1' and 'T2' and felt burned by 'T3' and 'T4,' so when we… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
My heroes were people like Jim Jarmusch. Scorsese was my god. Spike Lee was exciting, doing exactly what we thought we were… — Alan Taylor God Copy Share Image
![“In 1786, Jefferson pitched a secular and public system of education for Virginia. He reasoned that “the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more that the thousandth part of what will be paid to [the] kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.” quote by Alan Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/37a/alan-taylor-19383_education_in-1786-jefferson-pitched-a-secular-and_1221701.jpg)
