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

    "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.
  • A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

  • That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!

  • The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

  • You're a writer. Make it up.

    David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.11, Penguin
  • 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.

    Source: collider.com
  • This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

    David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin
  • Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

    David Benioff (2005). “When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories”, p.90, Penguin
  • There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

    "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.
  • Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

    Interview with Ed Cumming, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 10, 2012.
  • I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

    "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.
  • 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.

    "The Surprising Connection Between Game of Thrones and Monty Python". Interview with Jim Windolf, www.vanityfair.com. March 24, 2014.
  • I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

  • ‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.

    David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.78, Penguin
  • There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

    David Benioff (2005). “When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories”, p.73, Penguin
  • 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.

    Source: variety.com
  • This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.

  • Fiction novels, that's my game.

    Interview with Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.
  • 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

    Source: collider.com
  • You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

    David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.40, Penguin
  • The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye.

    David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.130, Penguin
  • 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 can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

    Interview with Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.
  • 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.

    Source: deadline.com
  • I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.

  • That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.

    David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.48, Penguin
  • I like having my own story remain my story.

  • I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

  • 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 goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

    "David Benioff" by Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.
  • Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.

    "The story behind 'Blackwater', Game of Thrones's brutal season two masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. November 30, 2012.
  • 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 his wish was carried out. Piter commanded far more affection and loyalty from me than the nation as a whole. But that night, running across the unplowed fields of winter wheat, with the Fascist invaders behind us and the dark Russian woods before us, I felt a surge of pure love for my country. We ran for the forest, crashing through the stalks of wheat, beneath the rising moon and the stars spinning farther and farther away, alone beneath the godless sky.

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