Latest David Benioff Quotes from Interviews

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• 'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

  David Benioff

  Years, Lasts, Fiction

  Source: variety.com

• Showrunner I admire: Weiss: "All friendship bias duly acknowledged: Rob McElhenney and the guys at 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' have been doing their show for longer than any live action comedy. To make something that consistently great for that long, and to keep it fresh ... I think that's a tremendous accomplishment.

  David Benioff

  Thinking, Philadelphia, Long

  Source: variety.com

• Hollywood screenwriters tend to have the longevity of NFL running backs. So the truth is no one can put more pressure on us than we put on ourselves.

  David Benioff

  Running, Nfl, Pressure

  Source: deadline.com

• The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

  David Benioff

  Able, Surprise, Reader

  Source: collider.com

• Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

  David Benioff

  Weather, Challenges, Actors

  Source: collider.com

• There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

  David Benioff

  Epic, Winning, Evil

  "Game of Thrones Showrunners on Season 4: It Will Never Be 'The Epic Conflict of Good and Evil'". Interview with Jim Windolf, www.vanityfair.com. March 12, 2014.

• 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 the book were the thoughts of the character, and obviously wanting to avoid voiceover.

  David Benioff

  Book, Character, Challenges

  "The Surprising Connection Between Game of Thrones and Monty Python". Interview with Jim Windolf, www.vanityfair.com. March 24, 2014.

• To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.

  David Benioff

  Fighting, Different, Needs

  "Game of Thrones Showrunners on Season 4: It Will Never Be 'The Epic Conflict of Good and Evil'". Interview With Jim Windolf, www.vanityfair.com. March 12, 2014.