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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.

~David Benioff

Topics: About Another Been Come Excited Game Game Of Thrones Get Helped Here Pitch Position Put Reality Show Successful Them Us Which Hbo

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You just do the best you can and hope people see the potential in it.

~David Benioff

Topics: Best Hope Just People Potential See You

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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?

~David Benioff

Topics: Books Bushes Crawling Crazy Crazy People Enough Find Go Great Idea Ireland Last Lens Like Northern Northern Ireland Out Pages People Person Pictures Read Sites Taking Those Through Want Website Would You

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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?

~David Benioff

Topics: About Always Anybody Because Books Could Faithful First Gets Go How Know Learn Most Onto People Red Ruin Seasons Several Stark Story Talk Want Wanted Wedding Were Who Why Wikipedia

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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.

~David Benioff

Topics: Amazing Battlefield Beforehand Day Days Director Every Exactly Exactly What Gets Good He Hours Hours And Hours Knows Lot Only Pack Performers Shoot Shot Spending Stunt Ten Those Wants You

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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.

~David Benioff

Topics: Actor Bad Bad Guy Brilliant Career Characters Evil Go Going Great Great Actor Guy He Long Most Only Play Those Who Will

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Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.

~David Benioff

Topics: Ages Book Dead Philosophers Quick Simon Sketches Through

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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.

~David Benioff

Topics: Bad Bad Movie Club Dinner Dumb Go Local Movie Playing Some Theater Then Whatever

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My favorite food in the world is hard shell crabs from Maryland.

~David Benioff

Topics: Crabs Favorite Food Hard Maryland Shell World

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For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes?

~David Benioff

Topics: Beautiful Been Better Book Boring Desert Desert Island Ever Every Existential Island Job Long More Most Philosophy Prose Reward Some Stranded Study Than Were Would Written You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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