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.’ David Benioff Read Quote
I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game. David Benioff Read Quote
Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote. David Benioff Read Quote
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. David Benioff Read Quote
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. David Benioff Read Quote
McCullers is one of those rare writers who remembers what childhood is like. Not incidents, which anyone can recall, but states of mind, which are so difficult to recreate. David Benioff Read Quote
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. David Benioff Read Quote
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. David Benioff Read Quote
Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying. David Benioff Read Quote