David Benioff
David Benioff
David Benioffis an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and director. He is the co-creator and showrunner of the widely acclaimed award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth25 September 1970
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
people waiting suggestions
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
growing-up thinking goal
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.
character passion men
I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.
people making-love world
the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.
dirty book adventure
This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.
girl eye color
You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.
writing down-and way
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.
beautiful powerful distance
The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye...
men greatest-fear people
I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.
home past eggs
That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!
growing-up games dungeons
I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.
teacher natural
I'm just not a natural teacher.
kites
I've never flown a kite.
writing thinking way
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.