David Benioff

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.'

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 the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.