David Benioff

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.

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.'

'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.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Merely implying bias due to a judge's ethnic heritage is wrong as a matter of principle and legally illegitimate.