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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just not a natural teacher.
- Nov 07, 2020
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
- Kite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never flown a kite.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like having my own story remain my story.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Game Of Thrones' was too big a canvas for a movie, but 'Dirty White Boys' is like a great old Western: there's so much compression, and it's so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The 25th Hour' came out of the decision - a really very conscious decision - that I needed a story set within a compressed time frame because that would help focus the story.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like extremely long movies. I tend to get a bit impatient. There are definitely exceptions, like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but for the most part, I feel that movies should usually be shorter and not longer.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always easiest for me as a writer if I know I have a great ending. It can make everything else work. If you don't have a good ending, it's the hardest things in the world to come up with one. I always loved the ending of 'The Kite Runner,' and the scenes that are most faithful to the book are the last few scenes.
- Cheering
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't type my sentences on an arena's pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans - I don't feel pressure to please a crowd.
- Depiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is, 'Game of Thrones' has been a successful show for HBO, which has put us in a position to come and pitch another show and get them excited about it. And that's what helped get us here.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's crazy enough to be the person crawling through the bushes in Northern Ireland with a telescopic lens taking pictures - there are crazy people out there. But the idea that people want to go to sites and find out those spoilers... it's like if there was a website called Last Pages of Great Books, would you read that?
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always talk about how the first several seasons were faithful to the books, and anybody who wanted to could go onto Wikipedia and learn Ned Stark gets beheaded or about The Red Wedding, and most people don't want to know - because why ruin a story?
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have amazing stunt performers and in Miguel Sapochnik, a director who's so good at spending hours and hours and hours on every shot beforehand, so that he knows exactly what he wants when he gets to the battlefield on the day. We only shoot ten-hour days, so you have to pack a lot into those ten hours.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iwan Rheon is a great actor, and he's going to go on to a long brilliant career. And most of the characters he'll play will not be evil. He's not one of those who can only play a bad guy.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a 'bad movie' club, and we go to whatever dumb movie is playing in the local theater, then go and have some beers and dinner.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my happiest childhood memories are going to the movies with my dad and seeing whatever was out that week. In 1977, when I was 7, it was 'Star Wars.' That was a life-changer.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020