The weird thing is, 'Game of Thrones,' people go to Iceland for three weeks, and it'd be like a small guerilla operation. 'Thor,' we went there for, like, five days, because we couldn't afford to be there any longer, because… — Alan Taylor 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, it turned… — Alan Taylor Copy Share
When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch. — Alan Taylor Copy Share
I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went… — Alan Taylor Copy Share
There are all kinds of things evolving in filmmaking I'm not sure I'm comfortable with. A friend of mine just showed me an immersive… — Alan Taylor Copy Share
“They were giving their childhood to this woman! They were starting at seven, and by the time they were sixteen they were still reading… — Alan Taylor Copy Share
I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history. — Alan Taylor Copy Share
My heroes were people like Jim Jarmusch. Scorsese was my god. Spike Lee was exciting, doing exactly what we thought we were going to… — Alan Taylor Copy Share
'Game of Thrones' was the first fantasy thing I've done, and like a lot of people who enjoy the show watching it, I didn't… — Alan Taylor Copy Share
I come out of TV, where you never reshoot, because you don't have time. If you do reshoot, it's because someone really screwed up. — Alan Taylor Copy Share
There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from… — Alan Taylor Copy Share
Compared to TV, 'Palookaville' was restriction-free, except we had no money and no time. — Alan Taylor Copy Share
I've been sort of spoiled on the TV end because HBO feels like a small institution making independent movies. There's respect for the director's… — Alan Taylor Copy Share
“In 1786, Jefferson pitched a secular and public system of education for Virginia. He reasoned that “the tax which will be paid for this… — Alan Taylor Copy Share
I had been trying to make movies, but they were really hard to get made. TV wound up, by surprise, a much more fulfilling… — Alan Taylor Copy Share
On 'Game of Thrones,' I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we'd see photos of what we'd shot online and think, 'My God… — Alan Taylor Copy Share
