I've never flown a kite.
From David Benioff
Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.
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.
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.
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.
Fiction novels, that's my game.
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.
Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
I'm just not a natural teacher.
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