On ‘Game of Thrones,’ we always shoot away from the green screen because it’s bloody expensive to shoot green screen. Alan Taylor Read Quote
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. Alan Taylor Read Quote
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. Alan Taylor Read Quote
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?’ Alan Taylor Read Quote
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.’ Alan Taylor Read Quote
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. Alan Taylor Read Quote
In TV, when you come in to direct an episode, you are effectively learning an established language; you then have to try to learn to speak it really well. But on a movie, you are the guy. You are creating the language; you make most of the decisions. Alan Taylor Read Quote
Most people aren’t lying awake at night worrying about a nuclear threat. But we are unnerved by a lot of how technology is coming into our lives and starting to infuse our lives. And we question whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Alan Taylor Read Quote
