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I don't do deleted scenes.

In something like 'Frank,' which is a comedy, albeit a strange and emotional one, you can absolutely put in deleted scenes, and we did because they were just funny and great, but they weren't necessary in the overall structure.

There's always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be oblique on 'Game of Thrones.'

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

It's very unusual for scenes to be added for a character.

I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very much part of the world. There's a lot of it, but that's the world they come from. It never is there to distract from the scene or the actors or story.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.

Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.