David Benioff Quotes

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• The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.
• Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.
• Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
• A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
• Fiction novels, that's my game.
• I like having my own story remain my story.
• I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love…
• I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.
• I'm just not a natural teacher.
• I've never flown a kite.
• Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.
• With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
• And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the…
• It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I…
• The eternal challenge for screenwriter adapters is figuring out how to make something work on screen, when so much of what made it work in…
• To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.
• There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.
• I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that…
• I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up…
• Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd…

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