American - Director | 1959 -
Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.
Alan Taylor
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I just love drawing on past human cultures; that's a thrill for me.
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There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.
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I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups.
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On 'Game of Thrones,' I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we'd see photos of what we'd shot online and think, 'My God - people really care.'
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There's a very devoted fan base that really loved 'T1' and 'T2' and felt burned by 'T3' and 'T4,' so when we said, 'We're going to do it again!' the reaction was, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa - what do you think you're doing?'
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There are all kinds of things evolving in filmmaking I'm not sure I'm comfortable with. A friend of mine just showed me an immersive 360 movie where you move from environment to environment and can look in any direction you want while you're experiencing it. Which is cool - but it kills directing, as far as I'm concerned.
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I come out of TV, where you never reshoot, because you don't have time. If you do reshoot, it's because someone really screwed up.
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On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.
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The funny thing is more money doesn't necessarily get you what you think it's going to get you and the way where it does get you more value on screen.
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The weird thing is, 'Game of Thrones,' people go to Iceland for three weeks, and it'd be like a small guerilla operation. 'Thor,' we went there for, like, five days, because we couldn't afford to be there any longer, because we were airlifting the entire contents of Hollywood into this country.
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I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.
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