Quotes by David Benioff

David Benioff

‘Breaking Bad.’ Because it’s the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

Fiction

Lasts

Years

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.

Goal

Growing Up

Thinking

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices – and in particular, difficult cuts.

Adaptation

Cutting

Difficult Choices

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.

Actors

Challenges

Weather

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 writing dialogue.

Thinking

Way

Writing

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

Dungeons

Games

Growing Up

‎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.

Greatness

Two

World

I’m just not a natural teacher.

Natural

Teacher

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 in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

Insomnia

Skulls

Sleep

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.

Down And

Way

Writing

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Actors

Adaptation

Adventure

Barbarians

Beautiful

Book

Challenges

Color

Cutting

Different

Difficult Choices

Dirty

Distance

Down And

Dungeons

Eggs

Epic

Evil

Eye

Fiction

Fighting

Games

Girl

Goal

Good Life

Greatness

Growing Up

Home

Insomnia

Kissing

Lasts

Long

Making Love

Men

Natural

Needs

Past

People

Philadelphia

Powerful

Skulls

Sleep

Sound

Suggestions

Teacher

Thinking

Two

Waiting

War

Way

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Quotes by David Benioff

David Benioff

‘Breaking Bad.’ Because it’s the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

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.

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices – and in particular, difficult cuts.

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.

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 writing dialogue.

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

‎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.

I’m just not a natural teacher.

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 in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

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.

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