Miguel Sapochnik

Music is my second love.

— Miguel Sapochnik

Piano is unique in that way: it can be both percussive and haunting.

— Miguel Sapochnik

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

— Miguel Sapochnik

When you're younger, you want to project an image of yourself through your work, but now, I just want to make something…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I realized I loved working in television as well as film. Besides, if I hadn't been forced to look for work in…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I had this total obsession that I would have my first movie at the Empire when I was 24, so it was…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I think that as television is evolving, the line between TV and film is becoming more and more blurred. This is both…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I must admit, I don't try to put my stamp on anything; it just happens. I don't really know how to think…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I think it's my job to fight. The studio makes you question your idea, and you have to prove it.

— Miguel Sapochnik

Getting a bunch of horses to just stand there all day and do nothing is much harder than getting them to run…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I think that being a Wildling is essentially about surviving the cold, and in that department, the extras on our shoot excelled…

— Miguel Sapochnik

Once you have a blueprint down, you start talking to all the other heads of department to see if and how they…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I try to just focus on what feels right to me when I am conceiving it, conceptualizing, designing, etc. and then talk…

— Miguel Sapochnik

The shift for me, after spending a long time trying to take existing projects and bring them to fruition as a director…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I love the humor of 'Monty Python.' I always remember being so impressed by how violent 'Monty Python' are, actually, when you…

— Miguel Sapochnik

While most episodes have a beginning, middle, and an ending, finales on 'Game of Thrones' are just one ending after another after…

— Miguel Sapochnik

Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I have a tendency to feel a bit embarrassed when approached, but it's such a thrill to know that you did something…

— Miguel Sapochnik

One of my biggest fears as a director is that everything is taking too long on camera. The actor saying their lines,…

— Miguel Sapochnik

Whatever project I sign up for, I try to familiarize myself with the material as much as possible before I start.

— Miguel Sapochnik

Sci-fi's great, but you don't have to hit people over the head with it when you're making a social comment. It just…

— Miguel Sapochnik

Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way…

— Miguel Sapochnik

In a nutshell, directing 'The Gift' was all about understanding how the complex machine that is 'Game of Thrones' works.

— Miguel Sapochnik

Each creative choice you make has 'x' many impacts on budgetary choices, which in turn have 'y' many impacts on your subsequent…

— Miguel Sapochnik

Buenos Aires is an incredibly kind of fragrant city, a beautiful city to look at, and it has the old and the…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I've learned more about directing from five years of television than I could have in ten years of film.

— Miguel Sapochnik

When I was coming onto 'Thrones,' I was looking for, 'What's the formula here?' There was a very David Lean kind of…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I try to approach all episodic work the same. No matter the content. I look for a dramatic or emotional spine to…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I really, really liked shooting and doing the scene with Emilia Clarke and Peter Dinklage at the end of 'Winds of Winter,'…

— Miguel Sapochnik