All David Benioff Quotes
- The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect. Calculated
- Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season. Break
- Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts. Adaptation
- A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. Banter
- Fiction novels, that's my game. Fiction
- I like having my own story remain my story. Funny
- 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… Dialogue
- I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game. D D
- I'm just not a natural teacher. Inspirational
- I've never flown a kite. Flown
- Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying. Becomes
- With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion. Deadline
- 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… Directed
- 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… Any
- 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… Avoid
- To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days. All
- There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning. Battle
- 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… Across
- 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… All
- 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… Arm